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How Communist China Captured Washington’s Pork Lobby – and Turned it Against American Farmers
Daily Caller ^ | July 19, 2026 | Taylor Warren

Posted on 08/02/2026 4:34:13 PM PDT by T Ruth

As Congress considers the pork lobby’s number one priority in this upcoming Farm Bill, the so-called “Save Our Bacon Act” (SOB Act), lawmakers should ask one question: who does that lobby actually represent?

You know Smithfield Foods, the seemingly all-American brand behind Nathan’s Famous hot dogs? Recent filings show the company is actually 86.9 percent Chinese-owned.

Smithfield’s majority owner is WH Group, a conglomerate linked to the Chinese Communist Party that is the world’s largest pork producer and that controls over a quarter of America’s pork industry. On WH Group’s behalf, Smithfield helps govern and bankroll the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC), Washington’s powerful pork lobby.

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Dozens of House Republicans have already seen through it, calling the provision sweeping federal overreach that would strip states of authority, override the choices of their own citizens, and help China finish the takeover it started when it bought Smithfield in 2013. To make matters worse, a legislative analysis found the SOB Act would erase virtually all state pre-harvest farming standards, including laws that protect livestock, and all of us, from diseases like avian flu and invasive pests like screwworms.

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But one of this committee’s members, Rep. Ashley Hinson of Iowa, is a lead sponsor of the SOB Act and has accepted over $27,000 in campaign contributions from the NPPC and Smithfield. All the while, Hinson talks tough on China: “We must block the CCP from…exerting control over our food supply,” she warns, and “we can’t sit on our hands as the CCP works to infiltrate our agriculture industry.”

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1 posted on 08/02/2026 4:34:13 PM PDT by T Ruth
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To: T Ruth

Reading this was not good for my BP.


2 posted on 08/02/2026 4:37:55 PM PDT by ComputerGuy
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To: T Ruth
Rep. Ashley Hinson of Iowa, is a lead sponsor of the SOB Act ... and she is a Republican ... go figure ..
3 posted on 08/02/2026 4:42:17 PM PDT by Ken522
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To: T Ruth

“We have the best government money can buy!” - Mark Twain..................


4 posted on 08/02/2026 4:46:10 PM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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To: T Ruth; wardaddy

bump


5 posted on 08/02/2026 4:53:13 PM PDT by Pelham (President Eisenhower. Operation Wetback 1953-54)
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To: T Ruth

China would never allow an American company to buy 90% of a major pork producer. Why do we?


6 posted on 08/02/2026 5:10:30 PM PDT by montag813
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To: T Ruth

My younger daughter works for Smithfield as a research analyst: PhD in pork production and MS in Statistics from University of Illinois.

LOL, she hates Trump’s tariffs.


7 posted on 08/02/2026 5:11:33 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: Carry_Okie

The CCP is our worst enemy.
The CCP is using the islamists right now, but the CCP plans on getting rid of the Mohammedians too. They plan the same for Putin. The CCP is overrunning Russia with CCP operatives under their new visa exchange agreement. Putin is stupid.


8 posted on 08/02/2026 5:34:29 PM PDT by doc maverick
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To: T Ruth

Smithfield Foods is right there in Sioux Falls, just a couple of miles from Kristi Noem’s old place. I wonder why she didn’t say anything about this.


9 posted on 08/02/2026 5:35:52 PM PDT by Bob Wills is still the king
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To: Carry_Okie

“My younger daughter works for Smithfield as a research analyst: PhD in pork production and MS in Statistics from University of Illinois.

LOL, she hates Trump’s tariffs.”
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Because she understands data and basic economics. More power to her!


10 posted on 08/02/2026 5:37:15 PM PDT by Bob Wills is still the king
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To: Carry_Okie

My younger daughter works for Smithfield as a research analyst: PhD in pork production and MS in Statistics from University of Illinois.

LOL, she hates Trump’s tariffs.


How does she like working for a China owned company?


11 posted on 08/02/2026 5:40:01 PM PDT by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: T Ruth
The Communist Party’s own China Weekly celebrated the SOB Act as a measure that “will significantly increase China’s share of the U.S. pork market.” The same article complained that U.S. state laws “tend to favor smaller farms in the United States and disadvantage multinational foreign-funded enterprises, weakening the ability of Chinese pork enterprises to operate efficiently.”

It may be in China's interest, but removal of barriers to their operations certainly is the goal of ALL large agriculture conglomerates.

Most US Ag processing is an oligopoly of a few large producers, from pork to beef to corn milling to flour to agriculture transport.

12 posted on 08/02/2026 6:34:44 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Red Badger
“We have the best government money can buy!” - Mark Twain....

https://www.nytimes.com/1973/08/10/archives/from-a-china-traveler.html

The traveler being David Rockefeller.

One is impressed immediately by the sense of national harmony. From the loud patriotic music at the border onward, there is very real and pervasive dedication to Chairman Mao and Maoist principles. Whatever the price of the Chinese Revolution, it has obviously succeeded not only in producing more efficient and dedicated administration, but also in fostering high morale and community of purpose...

General economic and social progress is no less impressive. Only 25 years ago, starvation and abject poverty are said to have been more the rule than the exception in China. Today, almost everyone seems to enjoy adequate, if Spartan, food, clothing and housing. Streets and homes are spotlessly clean, and medical care greatly improved. Crime, drug addiction, prostitution and venereal disease have been virtually eliminated. Doors are routinely left unlocked. Rapid strides are being made in agriculture, reforestation, industry and education. Eighty per cent of school‐age children now attend primary school, compared with 20 per cent just twenty years ago...

The enormous social advances of China have benefited greatly from the singleness of ideology and purpose. But a stiff price has been paid in terms of cultural and intellectual constraint. There are only eight different theatrical productions in the entire country. The universities are rigorously politicized, with little room for inquiry unrelated to Chairman Mao's thought. Freedom to travel or change jobs is restricted. When asked about personal creativity, one ceramics craftsman answered only that there was not time for individual art if the masses were to be served...

Second, will the highly decentralized Chinese economy be able to adapt successfully to expanded foreign trade and technological improvements?

All they needed was a little help from their friends

https://www.rbf.org/programs/china

The social experiment in China under. Chairman Mao's leadership is one of the most important and successful in human history. How extensively China opens up and how the world interprets and reacts to the social innovations and life styles she has developed is certain to have a profound impact on the future of many nations.

It certainly did. You all made a helluva effort transferring power and attempting to transform US.

13 posted on 08/02/2026 6:44:31 PM PDT by MurrietaMadman (The Gates of hell shall not prevail against you)
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Thank you for referencing that article T Ruth.

To make matters worse, a legislative analysis found the SOB Act would erase virtually all state pre-harvest farming standards, including laws that protect livestock, and all of us, from diseases like avian flu and invasive pests like screwworms.


FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument

The MAJOR constitutional question regarding the SOB Act is this. When are post-17th Amendment ratification patriot voters going wake up and kick Constitution-ignoring incumbent lawmakers out of office instead of unthinkingly reelecting them all the time?

We're probably never going to see incumbent DC RINOs stop the SOB Act dead in its tracks by simply pointing out the following. The shrinking, Constitution-respecting majority of early FDR era Supreme Court justices had clarified that the states have never expressly constitutionally given the constitutionally limited power (hint) federal government the specific power to regulate INTRAstate agriculture, deciding United States v. Butler in the states' favor.

From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited. None to regulate agricultural production is given, and therefore legislation by Congress for that purpose is forbidden [emphasis added].—United States v. Butler, 1936.

Sadly, using inappropriate terms (imo) like "concept" and "implicit," here is what was left of 10th Amendment-protected state powers after 3+ term Constitution-ignoring FDR's state sovereignty-ignoring justices had effectively reduced that amendment to an old wives' tale imo.

In discussion and decision, the point of reference, instead of being what was "necessary and proper" to the exercise by Congress of its granted power, was often some concept [??? all emphases added] of sovereignty thought to be implicit [???] in the status of statehood. Certain activities such as "production," , and "mining" were occasionally said to be within the province of state governments and beyond the power of Congress under the Commerce Clause." —Wickard v. Filburn, 1942.

The above statement from Wickard opinion probably gave later generations of state-sovereign ignoring activist justices the confidence to help unconstitutionally expand the federal governments powers in states v. federal government cases.

It's up to us patriot voters to support PDJT47 with as much of a new patriot Congress that we can give him in 2026 midterm elections.

14 posted on 08/02/2026 6:44:55 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: Jane Long
How does she like working for a China owned company?

She's mercenary and ambitious. Always has been, despite her upbringing.

15 posted on 08/02/2026 7:20:54 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: T Ruth

Owned by China.


16 posted on 08/02/2026 8:58:05 PM PDT by Bayard
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To: MurrietaMadman

Klaus Schwab was mentored by Rockefeller agent Henry Kissinger and also believes in the Chinese model of complete control.

This is the same goal of the WEF to enact a digital gulag mirroring their control grid. Using CCP styled social credit scores and digital surveillance as their model.

Xi has so many henchmen in the West it would surprise most to learn who some of them are.


17 posted on 08/03/2026 5:56:01 AM PDT by captmar-vell
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To: T Ruth

Idiots have been running this country and allowed a country at war with us to trade with us and own us.


18 posted on 08/03/2026 5:58:07 AM PDT by Vision (“Our Democracy” means "Our Slush Fund." The Left is hate.)
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To: T Ruth

Are there any reports on Smithfield’s ham products being unsafe?


19 posted on 08/03/2026 8:02:48 AM PDT by oldtech (oltech)
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To: T Ruth

Who approved the sale of Smithfield to the ChiComs?


20 posted on 08/03/2026 10:29:39 AM PDT by The Great RJ
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