This week, Country Music Star John Rich, of the duo Big & Rich,
railed against U.S. House Committee on Agriculture Chairman Glenn
Thompson's effort to hand American pork production over to China.
Rich, who serves on the board of directors at
Moms for
America® (MFA), and is working in a coalition with
Competitive Markets Action, the Organization for Competitive
Markets, Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller, and others,
brought the full court press on YouTube in his video against EATS.
Rich's efforts follow a letter from MFA to House Speaker Mike
Johnson and Leaders Hakeem Jefferies, D-NY, Chuck Schumer, D-NY,
and Mitch McConnell, R-KY, from MFA against EATS earlier this year,
and a recent op-ed Rich saw published in Newsmax last month on the
issue.
“If the final Committee-passed Farm Bill includes the EATS Act
or any language that nullifies state and local agriculture laws
that keep American family farmers in business, we will have no
choice but to actively oppose the passage and enactment of the
legislation and we will engage our grassroots army to help defeat
it,” said Kimberly Fletcher, President of Moms for
America. “Ensuring that the Chinese and other
multinational conglomerates aren’t allowed to further consolidate
food production in the U.S. is a critical component of our
legislative agenda, and this federal power grab by the swamp must
be defeated at all costs.”
“The legislation jeopardizes the viability of family farms and
ranches across America, giving preference to foreign multinational
conglomerates like the Communist Chinese-owned Smithfield who owns
one in every six sows in the United States,” said John Rich in
his Newsmax opinion piece.
"Chairman Thompson's Farm Bill is a direct assault on states'
rights that's designed to boost Chinese-owned companies like
Smithfield, and will decimate small farmers and pork producers
across America who have created their own niche markets in order to
thrive and survive in the marketplace," said Marty
Irby, President at Competitive Markets Action and Secretary at the
Organization for Competitive Markets. "The swamp thing
Thompson is trying to ram through Congress must be defeated if we
are to protect our food supply."
In addition, farmers and ranchers against EATS and the
nullification of Prop 12 at the Organization for Competitive
Markets and Competitive Markets Action, were joined by Moms for
America in a fly-in to Washington, D.C. this week where they
conducted nearly 80 in-person meetings against EATS.
In a 5 to 4 decision last May, the Supreme Court of the
United States upheld Prop 12 that EATS and other bills like it seek
to nullify with Justices Neil Gorsuch, Clarence Thomas, and Amy
Coney Barrett voted in alignment with the views of Moms for America
and countless conservatives across the country while Secretary
Vilsack and the Biden Dept. of Justice submitted briefs to the
contrary and sided with the Chinese interests and Chinese Communist
Party that financed the purchase of Smithfield.
Two Republican-led House letters against EATS previously sent to
Thompson authored by Reps. Andrew Garbarino, R-NY, and Anna Paulina
Luna, R-FL were completely ignored in the Farm Bill process. Those
letters were also cosigned by House Freedom Caucus
Chairman Bob Good, R-VA, as well as Reps. Byron Donalds, R-FL, Matt
Gaetz, R-FL, Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-GA, Nancy Mace, R-SC, Andy
Biggs, R-AZ, Matt Rosendale, R-MT, Jeff Van Drew, R-NJ, Tim
Burchett, R-TN, David Valadao, R-CA, Mike Waltz, R-FL, Alex Mooney,
R-WV, Carol Miller, R-WV, Earl “Buddy” Carter, R-GA, Lance Gooden,
R-TX, Mike Lawler, R-NY, Brian Fitzpatrick, R-PA, Young Kim, R-CA,
Mike Garcia, R-CA, Tom Kean, R-NJ, Jeff Van Drew, R-NJ, Chris
Smith, R-NJ, and Vern Buchanan, R-FL.
Founded in 2004, Moms for America is a national, non-profit
501c3 educational corporation rooted on the principles of liberty
and virtue our nation was founded on, and focused on promoting
these principles, values, and virtues in the home and family,
particularly through the women and mothers of America.
To learn more about Moms for America, please
visit momsforamerica.us. You can follow MFA
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- John Rich Rails on China-backed EATS Act
Marty Irby
Competitive Markets Action
202-821-5686
marty@competitivemarketsaction.org