Save Our Bacon Act is another law to help control the food supply and strengthen the oligarchy....

Industrial farms want to ensure they can continue their ways….

Recently, the Save Our Bacon Act, a new bill trying to be pushed through with the egregious 2026 Farm Bill. The name ‘save our bacon’ sounds like it might be trying to protect bacon, while in some ways it protects industrial pork farms; it ensures that inhumane treatment of pigs continues, and other animals.

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Yet, it’s not limited to pigs; it can ensure companies can still cage animals, with no sunlight, pasture, or in cramped living quarters.

California passed Proposition 12, which directly conflicts with the Save Our Bacon Act. This enforces cage-free hens for eggs, sows (mother pigs) to not be stuck in gestation cages, and prohibits calving crates. Large corporations did not like this bill.

The Save Our Bacon Act will allow all of those inhumane practices and make it a federal law. States would not be able to ban inhumane farming practices like Calfornia did.

The insanity, most people want better farming conditions. They want humane treatment, but why do these corporations not? Money $$$.

Less space equals more. More equals more profit. But we see how that mindset is wreaking havoc on creation. Learning to manage the land and animals is far better for everyone, even if it upsets profits.

What corporations and politicians are supporting this bill?

Smithfield Foods, Triumph Foods, Tyson, and JBS. All the big boys in industrial farming.

Triumph Foods has even sued California for passing Prop 12. The lawsuit failed, but it is currently awaiting the Supreme Court’s final verdict. The Save Our Bacon Act would give this company its wishes.

A Republican Representative from Iowa introduced this bill, Ashley Hinson. First introduced the Ending Agricultural Trade Suppression Act, or EATS Act, which failed, so Hinson reintroduced the measure as the standalone Save Our Bacon Act.

Thankfully, you can still call your senators and tell them you do not want the Save Our Bacon Act to pass. It infringes on state rights and is inhumane treatment of animals. Find your members here.

If you're someone who still doesn’t understand why this matters? If it really harms sows being in gestation crates, or if laying hens should be caged? It does.

These type of farming practices adds stress to the animals, increase parasites, and take away humane treatment, and all of that, in my opinion, transfers to us. To some, that sounds woo-woo, but I do believe that how we raise and care for animals that we eat, that energy of their life transfers to us in some way.

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The pain, fear, and discomfort that a sow would face in a gestation crate is nothing short of torture. She cannot turn around, can only stand, waiting for her feces to be scooped up.

This is a gestation crate.

For laying hens, some cages that they are kept in won’t even allow them to expand their wings.

It seems that society views mothers as some breeding machine, not a sacred entity.

I have a sow that has labored on her own terms. Pacing her pasture. Going to her barn stall and setting up her labor room how she sees fit.

This past litter, she dug up an old boat motor that was left by previous owners in our wooded area. She dragged it up to the barn, and for whatever reason, that was a needed element for her to go into labor.

It sounds silly, but if we cannot give the same respect and care to animals, we probably will fall short in giving it to humans as well.

For those who say, " Well, why eat them?” Raising animals on a smaller scale and in a regenerative manner reduces animal cruelty, helps creation, and the animal will only face one bad day.

You can eat meat sustainably; industrial farming does not allow this. It’s all about maximizing profit.

Regardless if the Save Our Bacon Act passes, your actions determine the future. If everyone stopped buying from Smithfield and sourced all their pork locally or raised it themselves, we would create an alternate system. It is possible.

My family and I have raised, hunted, and only bought local meat for two years now. It is gratifying to know we are making a little change, and so can you.

Call your lawmen, but also make changes today. Because, regardless of what they do, we, the collective, need to pave a better way.

Talk soon,

Shelby

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