National Pork Producers Council

[laughs] Kirti, were there any other notable observations that we missed that you did not, since you're so deep into this case?

Yeah, I mean, I suspect you guys missed nothing, but I will say, like, one thing that I love/deeply hated about this argument is that both Suncor and the lawyer for the US placed so much emphasis at argument on this case called National Pork Producers Council versus Ross, which is a case about the Dormant Commerce Clause, which is another clause that doesn't actually exist in the Constitution and exists as doctrine that kind of restricts what states can do under state law that might have an effect on things that happen outside of the, the state whose law it is.

And Suncor's lawyer at some point actually says he can do, do no better than National Pork Producers to support his extraterritoriality arguments.

And I find that-

Now, the industry has a great, great arm.

The National Pork Producers Council is working on this stuff every day.

They're pushing, pushing everywhere they can push.

They follow state issues.

For sure.

And- and we, you know, through National Pork Board and- and National Pork Producers Council, we've just had lots of conversations about what we're, what we need to do.

Um, you know, you bring up increased protein demands, and I think that's right.

But with all the people on GLPs-

And then I actually went to work for a public relations firm in Kansas City, Missouri, where I live now, and have been since I graduated with my master's degree in a public relations firm that specialized in agriculture.

And one of my first accounts was the National Pork Producers Council.

wow you're really educated got me feeling

yeah like so many of my friends from college looking back and and i was in a fraternity called farmhouse fraternity so it was started out with agricultural roots it started the university of missouri we have a lot of different diversity in it now but a lot of us came from small towns and farms and A big percentage of us were agriculture majors, but we had a lot of business and others.

Let's hear more about what this means from some of our ag industry leaders, including Ethan Lane.

Senior Vice President of Government Affairs for the National Cattlemen's Beef Association and a representative from the National Pork Producers Council.

Well, the logic of pushing mandatory country of origin labeling in an environment where producers are complaining about high input costs and high costs to produce that product at the same time that everyone is focused on lowering consumer prices is MCOOL would do two things right away.

It would raise costs for producers to comply with it, and it would raise the price of our product for consumers at the store.

Now, up next, an unedited excerpt of a policy discussion hosted by the National Association of Farm Broadcasting earlier today.

In it, Ethan Lane from the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, Rob Brenneman from the National Pork Producers Council, and Jeff Cooper of the Renewable Fuels Association first lined out their expectations for the meeting tomorrow between Presidents Trump and she.

And then they went on to talk about so much more.

Here's Jeff Cooper of the RFA.

Free market, what I believe and my friends believe in, free market all day long.

Ethan Lane is with the National Cattlemen's Beef Association.

You've been listening to an unedited excerpt of an ag policy discussion with Lane, Jeff Cooper from the Renewable Fuels Association, and Rob Brenneman of the National Pork Producers Council.

It was put on earlier today by the National Association of Farm Broadcasting and hosted by one of my colleagues, farm broadcaster Jess Allen.

And as long as that vehicle remains open for an amendment, we are going to have to fight to make sure that our senators, our representatives and of course, everyone in Congress knows that the save our bacon act is a toxic poison pill and does not belong i share the sentiment that you have jane when i first learned when i got into this movement after law school and i learned about a gestation crate my first thought was this could not possibly be true this could not possibly be true and that was nearly two decades ago not to age myself with the gray in my beard But what I do know is that the industry knows that they are on their last leg.

The National Pork Producers Council and the factory farming industry and companies like Smithfield know that the public do not support, do not support overwhelmingly locking mother pigs in cages so small they can't even stand up.

turn around and extend their limbs.

And we've heard from offices and we've seen quotes from the MPPC saying they know this is their last chance.

And so there's an article that came out and it said basically that it came out from um from an it's an article from a chinese newspaper that said that uh it would save our bacon act would significantly increase china's share of the u.s pork market if it is successfully passed now this had to be translated from chinese because it was it was a it was i think it was like the chinese weekly and so this really emphasizes the issue here is that we have a foreign body that owns one of our largest meat meat companies in the entire country one of the largest food producers smithfield And they are actively engaged in setting US policy.

And what the biggest issue here is that they're not even disclosing it.

And so what we do know is the National Pork Producers Council takes money from Smithfield and takes money from other companies that are in support of locking mother pigs in cages so small they can't even turn around.

They hire lobbyists to the tunes of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

don't see it happening.

I have a bet placed with the guy that's in charge of the National Pork Producers Council.

So far, I'm ahead.

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