Pork production in the United States is a moral and virtuous activity in that it creates an abundant, continuous, safe, low-cost and nutritious supply of food for people and families in this country and all over the world. Providing food for others as a vocation is to daily dedicate oneself to the most elementary affirmation of life itself, for without food there is no life.
Beyond this most basic affirmation of life, food plays an equally fundamental role in creating and defining the deep cultural bonds and family traditions which connect people to each other and to their history thereby creating and sustaining the human family in all of its rich and diverse customs and identities. By daily shouldering the unique and challenging production and economic risks and performing the hard work inherent in agricultural endeavors, pork producers along with other farmers free countless millions, whose first obligation would otherwise be to grow food for themselves and their families, to follow their own callings and passions, explore alternate careers and enables them to create value and find fulfillment in every other field of human venture.
