Oppose: Save Our Bacon Act (Federal)
H.R. 4673
The Save Our Bacon Act, a repackaged version of the damaging EATS Act, would undermine individual states’ ability to enact their own laws affecting agricultural practices.
Status
The Animal Legal Defense Fund opposes this bill.
Sponsors: Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA-2)
Introduction Date: July 23, 2025
The Save Our Bacon Act (H.R. 4673), a repackaged version of the damaging EATS Act, would undermine the ability of states to enact their own laws affecting the treatment of farmed animals. It would also invalidate California’s Proposition 12 and similar state laws which were passed to protect farmed animals from extreme confinement.
In more than a dozen states across the U.S., voters and legislators have passed laws protecting farmed animals from some of the most egregious cruelty in the factory farming industry: intensive confinement in systems such as gestation crates, veal crates, and battery cages. Other states are currently considering similar legislation.
Federal lawmakers have introduced a bill that would jeopardize these humane reforms and other state laws relating to farmed animals and agriculture.
The Save Our Bacon Act could strip states and localities of their right to impose standards on the production of livestock products sold or offered for sale in interstate commerce when those standards differ from the laws of other states. If this dangerous bill were to become law, years’ worth of legislative victories for farmed animals at the state level could be imperiled.
The Save Our Bacon Act is similar to the former EATS Act and legislation in previous sessions of Congress that came to be known as the “King Amendment” after its sponsor, then-Rep. Steve King of Iowa. A broad coalition of advocates for animal protection, food safety, consumer protection, environmental preservation, and rural communities, as well as small farmers, staunchly opposed the King Amendment and helped ensure its defeat in both 2014 and 2018.
It’s critical that animal advocates help defeat both the Save Our Bacon Act and its active Senate counterpart, the Food Security and Farm Protection Act, as well. The Animal Legal Defense Fund strongly opposes both bills.
Visit our farmed animals page to learn more about the issues farmed animals face on industrial farms.
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