Troubling account of how the Chinese Communist Party is dominating America's pork industry and its powerful federal lobby. https://t.co/yIHSFLzmIk
— J Michael Waller (@JMichaelWaller) July 30, 2026
"How Communist China Captured Washington's Pork Lobby--and Turned It Against American Farmers," Taylor Warren Ford, President of Center for Responsible Food Business, July 19, 2026. It looks like for the purposes of this farm bill that Warren Ford would be quite qualified to criticize China and its practices of animal rights. The “Save Our Bacon Act” (SOB Act): This is the NPPC’s top priority in the upcoming Farm Bill. It would nullify state laws on animal welfare standards
Takeaways.
You know Smithfield Foods, the seemingly all-American brand behind Nathan’s Famous hot dogs? Recent filings show the company is actually 86.9% Chinese-owned.
Although the Pork Council claims to be the voice of American farmers, it is China’s WH Group that has the most to gain from the lobby’s signature bill. The measure would nullify state laws setting minimum standards for how farm animals are raised, most notably banning “gestation crates,” metal cages barely larger than a pig’s body in which a mother pig cannot turn around for nearly her entire life. Thousands of small- and mid-size American farmers have invested to meet these standards because they offer a rare lifeline in today’s consolidated industry. Without them, the critical market these producers have carved out will collapse.
Corporate CCP doesn't want anyone cutting into their market share? Oh, so it's not some nefarious commie movie against Imperialist America?
That’s exactly what China and its Washington lobby want, and the motivation is right out in the open. 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.” In other words, the Communist Party’s own press says this bill will take market share from American family farms and hand it to Chinese companies.
Federal reach on behalf of the CCP. Say it isn't so.
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.
Just to be clear, Chinese Communist Party members make up 85% of senior executives at Smithfield?
Who stands behind Smithfield is no mystery either. As the Daily Caller reported, WH Group’s chairman and four top executives are Chinese Communist Party members, and at the company’s Chinese flagship, Party members make up 85% of senior executives. The chairman himself is a former People’s Liberation Army soldier who spent twenty years in China’s National People’s Congress.
Well, I can be confident that good ol' Uncle Sam is working to protect American companies from foreign invaders. Ixnay on that, oe-jay arthy-mccay. Don't be looking for patriots in Congress, ay.
The same could be said for the lawmakers who do the NPPC and WH Group’s bidding, and they can’t claim ignorance. For years, Congress has held hearings on Chinese influence over American farmland, food processing, and supply chains. Members even created a select committee dedicated to confronting the Chinese Communist Party.
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.”
Infiltrate? Sounds like they own it by hook and by crook.
Politicians don't actually fight for the interests and well-being of Americans; it's more that they posture on behalf of Americans, essentially exploiting our good nature.
Hinson should explain this hypocrisy to her voters, and so should Senators Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst, who have repeatedly postured about the threat Chinese control of the U.S. food supply poses while sponsoring the SOB Act and accepting over $25,000 each from the NPPC and WH Group’s U.S. branch.
What language do Congressmen speak: English or Mandarin?
when the “voice of America’s pork producers” speaks, is it in English or Mandarin?
