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Allow state-inspected meat to be sold across state lines

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 10, p. 305. Written by Daren Bakst.

Allow state-inspected meat to be sold across state lines

The document says “should”Who acts: CongressHow: legislationp. 305 in the PDF
What the document says

“Promote legislation that would allow state-inspected meat to be sold in interstate commerce.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 305

The chapter notes that states with department-approved inspection programs must meet and enforce requirements at least equal to those under the federal meat and poultry inspection laws, and says the barriers to selling their meat across state lines should be removed.

What the document actually says

“Promote legislation that would allow state-inspected meat to be sold in interstate commerce.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 305
That sentence, in plain words

Let meat checked by a state be sold in other states too.

What this is about

Meat must be checked before sale. Some states run their own checks. That meat cannot cross state lines. The book says it should be allowed to.

Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. Executive Order 14364, signed December 6, 2025, creates food supply chain task forces at the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission to investigate price fixing and anti-competitive behavior, naming meat processing among the vulnerable sectors. It is competition enforcement. It leaves untouched the federal inspection requirements that keep meat from state-inspected plants inside its own state, and nothing indexed promotes legislation to remove that barrier. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.

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  1. The document itself

    Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, edited by Paul Dans and Steven Groves (The Heritage Foundation, 2023), p. 305.
    https://static.heritage.org/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf

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    “Allow state-inspected meat to be sold across state lines,” Project 2025, chapter 10, p. 305. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/project-2025/proposal/ch10-state-inspected-meat-interstate/ (retrieved October 7, 2026).

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