Save Our Bacon Act

This bill would set one national rule for selling meat, dairy, and other livestock products across state lines. It says states cannot block or limit the sale of these products by adding their own extra farming or animal-care rules to goods that were raised in another state. The goal is to keep a single, smooth national market and avoid a patchwork of different state standards for how animals are raised before their products can be sold elsewhere.

In short, producers would have a federal right to raise and sell their livestock products in interstate commerce, and states could only apply their production rules to animals physically raised within their own borders—not to products coming from out of state.

• Who is affected: Farmers and ranchers, state regulators, grocery stores, and consumers buying meat and dairy across state lines.
• What changes: States could not require out-of-state producers to meet additional or different farming standards as a condition for sale in that state.
• Why it matters: It aims to keep prices and supplies more consistent nationwide by preventing differing state rules from limiting which products can be sold where.