Pork Producers Celebrate Bill to Save Family Farms
July 23, 2023
U.S. Representative Ashley Hinson (R-IA) introduced the Save Our Bacon Act to help save family farms across the country by providing certainty against a dangerous and chaotic web of conflicting farm regulations, including California Proposition 12.
National Pork Producers Council President Duane Stateler, a pork producer from McComb, Ohio, spoke to pork producers’ support of the bill.
“We sincerely appreciate Representative Hinson for consistently engaging with family farmers and championing legislation that provides the certainty we need to pass along our farms to the next generation. Without legislation to shield America’s 60,000+ pork-producing family farms from heavy-handed, multi-state regulations, many producers otherwise would be faced with business-crushing decisions.”
Bipartisan support for averting a web of contradictory state laws continues to grow, with support from President Donald Trump, former President Joe Biden, and their respective Agriculture Secretaries, Brooke Rollins and Tom Vilsack.
If left unchecked, Prop. 12, along with a wave of contradictory farm regulations, will soon sweep the nation, to include:
- Serious threats of industry consolidation, pushing multi-generation farm families – especially small and medium-size farms – out of business.
- Skyrocketing grocery bills, with some pork products experiencing price hikes of as much as 41%.
- Far-reaching and harmful impacts on both farmers and consumers.
- Unfair costs forced on farmers to pay for out-of-state regulators to audit their farms.
- Significant increases in the cost of raising pigs—by as much as 15% on each pig marketed.
- Potential harm to pigs, as arbitrary, unscientific laws hamstring farm veterinarians’ herd health plans
Source: NPPC
