The enticing smell of bacon isn’t what you would normally expect for a morning on Capitol Hill, but it’s the aroma that greeted staffers grabbing breakfast on a recent morning from a food truck parked just down the block from the U.S. Capitol.

But this wasn’t just any food truck serving up breakfast sandwiches.

It was part of the National Pork Producers Council’s effort to lobby Congress to “ fix ” Proposition 12, a California law that mandates pork sold in the state be raised in a pen that is at least 24 square feet. The law, which survived a challenge from the NPPC at the Supreme Court , went into effect in January 2024, and has forced producers to change how they are raising their pork if they want to sell it in the Golden State.

California is the nation’s largest market when it

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