Keep the Save Our Bacon Act OUT of the Farm Bill

The Farm Bill provides funding to support agricultural operations and must be passed every five years or extended to maintain the funding.

The 2026 Farm Bill (H.R. 7567, The Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026) contains a lot, including some very bad provisions.

The Farm Bill passed the House (224-200) in April and recently passed the Senate Committee on Agriculture. This Committee removed Section 12006, the Save Our Bacon Act language, from the Farm Bill. 

Section 12006 of the Farm Bill, which is nearly identical to that of the Save Our Bacon Act, would prevent states from forbidding the sale of meat derived from farmed animals confined in cruel conditions.

This is in direct response to California's Prop. 12, which prohibits cruel confinement of farmed animals. This precedent would allow other states to pass similar laws that ensure farmed animals are not cruelly confined.

In 2018, California voters approved Proposition 12 (Prop. 12) to require better confinement standards for certain farmed animals, prohibiting the sale of meat from a calf raised for veal, breeding pig, or egg-laying hen confined in a cruel manner. Cruel confinement is defined as that which prevents the animal from lying down, standing up, fully extending its limbs, or turning around freely at any time.

In 2026, Rep. Glenn Thompson introduced the new Farm Bill, the Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026, H.R. 7567, which included Section 12006, containing nearly identical language to that of the Save Our Bacon Act: he effectively embedded the Save Our Bacon Act within the Farm Bill. Section 12006 of the Farm Bill would also prohibit any state from requiring out-of-state meat producers to ensure farmed animals are not cruelly confined.

Although the Senate Committee on Agriculture removed Section 12006, the Save Our Bacon Act, from the Farm Bill, it must still pass the Senate. Theoretically, the Senate could re-incorporate the Save Our Bacon Act language into the Farm Bill. 

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