The LOCAL Foods Act of 2024 modifies federal meat inspection rules to allow livestock owners to slaughter and process their own animals without federal inspection under certain conditions. Currently, the law only exempts people processing animals they personally raised for their own household consumption. This bill expands the exemption to include partial owners of livestock and allows owners to designate agents to help with slaughtering and processing, as long as the owner maintains custody and can identify which meat products came from their animals. The exemption still requires that the meat be used only by the owner, their household members, nonpaying guests, and employees. The bill has no specified funding or implementation timeline and would affect small-scale livestock producers and community farming operations that want to process their own meat locally.
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