Chinese Owned Farms and Corporations

   The proponents of SQ 777, The Right to Harm, have publicly stated that this bill is not about Chinese and international farms. But let's look at the facts:
1) China owns the largest hog farm in the world, Shuanghui, located in Virginia. It produces 25% of all hogs in the U.S.A.
2) Seaboard foods, an international hog farm, is the 3rd largest hog farm in the U.S.A. located in the panhandle of Oklahoma. It is directly responsible for forcing the closure of most of the family hog farms in Oklahoma since 2005, reducing the "competition" by 1,626 family hog producers from 2005 to 2012. I personally know several hog farms that have "gone under" because they could not compete with the giant hog factory.
3) Oklahoma chicken farms have been reduced from 6,105 family owned farms in 2005 to only 3 factory farms in 2012.
4) Besides factory farms, China owns approximately a dozen other giant corporations in the U.S.A.
5) All told, the rise of corporate-industrial agriculture in Oklahoma coincided with the largest decline in the agricultural workforce in Oklahoma history. 77% of farm and ranch jobs disappeared in Oklahoma from 1990 to 2014 - greater than the decline in subsistence farming during the Dust Bowl.
6) The National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) is an industry group that represents the pork industry. Its leaders are executives with factory hog farms and industry lobbyists from pork producing and packing corporations like Shuanghui and Seaboard. They have been identified as a supporter of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), where bills are handed to state lawmakers which will benefit share-holders and executives.
7) The NPPC, working hand in hand with Seaboard and Suanghui factory hog farms, wrote "The Right to Farm" bill in 1996. They may have had assistance from the corporate insurance industry.
8) Right to Farm was rewritten in 2013 to fit the bill into a state question, where it was picked up by several states. Oklahoma lawmakers picked up the state question in 2015 at an ALEC conference.
9) The gist of the campaign effort by proponents of SQ 777 has been to instill fear of the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) into local farmers and ranchers. Even though HSUS has never passed a state law inhibiting our right to farm, proponents of the bill (corporate owners) say that HSUS will take away our right to farm if we don't pass this bill (pure BS).
10) Ultimately, SQ 777 is all about corporate profits and share-holder gains, and has absolutely NOTHING to do with the right to farm. It's about the right to harm our family farmers and ranchers and the right of CORPORATIONS to harm our environment.

   The above 10 points are all based on documented facts - VOTE NO on SQ 777!