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Posted on 05/30/2026 5:39:19 AM PDT by Cronos
the bill includes the proposed Save Our Bacon Act, which is designed to override state animal welfare requirements and potentially a host of other state and local regulations.
The act aims to reverse California’s Proposition 12 and Massachusetts’s Question 3, which voters passed in 2018 and 2016, respectively, to prohibit the sale of food products derived from livestock raised in extreme confinement — that is, without enough space for animals to turn around and stretch their limbs. This hardly seems an unreasonable request for a modern, enlightened society. Besides, a majority of residents in those two states, among several others, want it that way.
Should the Save Our Bacon Act make the final version of the bill, federal legislators would be undermining states’ constitutional rights to self-determination, while potentially strengthening foreign countries such as China. In 2013, the Chinese company WH Group purchased Smithfield Foods, America’s largest pork producer, with a $4 billion loan from the state-owned Bank of China.
Smithfield Foods is a member of the National Pork Producers Council, which filed a lawsuit challenging Proposition 12 in 2019. That case went to the Supreme Court, which ruled in California’s favor and memorably produced Justice Neil M. Gorsuch’s majority opinion in 2023 that “while the Constitution addresses many weighty issues, the type of pork chops California merchants may sell is not on that list.”
Prominent conservatives like Tomi Lahren, Mike Cernovich and Laura Ingraham have stood firm against this provision. Cernovich called it “demonic,” and Lahren referred to it in a way that is unprintable here. A number of Republican House members, led by Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, have challenged the measure in Congress.
Opposition to the provision isn’t just about pig well-being. Some conservatives object to this effort to overturn the will of voters
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California pigs are different from Massachusetts pigs and Congress can’t change that.
I tell my southern lifestyle, but Massachusetts born, wife that I like her Boston butt.
I’ll vote against anyone in Congress voting FOR the Save Our Bacon Act. Republican or Democrat. Next to Trump, animal cruelty is the major issue I would vote on.
Animal cruelty? Nothing is as cruel to animals as the halal form of butchering. That should be outlawed forthwith! Where has PETA been on that one?
Is there some kind of halal sharia-compliant scheme in the background here to allow goat sacrifices without regulation?
You beat me by 30 seconds…
Actually 45….
Congress was assigned the power to “regulate interstate commerce”. This includes the power to stop states from prohibiting food from other states if the destination state doesn’t like how it was raised.
If Parker is for it, I’m against it,
CaCaLand voters “pass” no such laws. Propositions and ballot measures in this state are totally unenforceable — according to judges.
All such laws “voted on” (i.e., assuming you are stupid enough to believe any election here is honest) are always backed up with legislative action — which is always by the DNC.
The annual day for all Muslims to practice public torture murder on animals, “Eid al-adha,” was last Wednesday. Got to build their terror skills up for their next 10/7.
The Washington Post is more concerned about the baby pigs more than they’ve ever been concerned about the baby humans.
Animal rights laws should be erased everywhere.
Kosher butchering isn’t much better.
How we handle our meat had been a human contention for literally millennia. It won’t get solved.
Animal cruelty need not be an issue that we would even vote on if people were halfway sensible, it wouldn’t exist.
This is what happens when evil is allowed to run rampant on earth.
Exactly, it’s not cruel when muzzies do it, apparently.
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