Keeping pigs in crates won’t make America healthy

Published June 24, 2026 10:00am ET



People want healthier food, and voters have passed laws requiring better standards for how that food is produced. American family farmers are meeting those standards.

But corporate pork interests, including foreign-owned Smithfield, are pressuring Congress to roll back those standards.

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