GOP lawmaker leads letter condemning CCP's 'infiltration' of the US pork industry

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FIRST ON FOX: Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., is urging the House's agriculture committee to reject the Exposing Agriculture Trade Suppression (EATS) Act in the 2024 farm bill over concerns the Chinese Communist Party(CCP) will continue dominating control of the U.S. pork industry.

"The Chinese Communist Party has been stealthily encroaching on the U.S. agriculture industry for some time now," Luna told Fox News Digital in a statement.

On Friday, Luna will send a letter to the committee warning the EATS Act could undermine state laws and standards for agricultural production, posing a threat to American farmers in the pork industry while benefiting foreign-owned companies.

"If the House Agriculture Committee adopts this harmful proposal, it will hurt thousands of American farmers, and substantially benefit foreign-owned farms that have come to dominate the domestic U.S. pork industry — especially pork production in the United States under the control of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Beijing," Luna wrote.

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