7 U.S.C. § 4801: Congressional findings and declaration of purpose

pork and pork products are basic foods that are a valuable and healthy part of the human diet; produced by thousands of producers, including many small- and medium-sized producers; and consumed by millions of people throughout the United States on a daily basis; pork and pork products must be available readily and marketed efficiently to ensure that the people of the United States receive adequate nourishment; the welfare of pork producers and persons concerned with producing and marketing pork and pork products; and the general economy of the United States; pork and pork products move in interstate and foreign commerce; pork and pork products that do not move in such channels of commerce directly burden or affect interstate commerce in pork and pork products; and in recent years, increasing quantities of low-cost, imported pork and pork products have been brought into the United States and replaced domestic pork and pork products in normal channels of trade. strengthen the position of the pork industry in the marketplace; and maintain, develop, and expand markets for pork and pork products. Such procedure shall be implemented, and such program shall be conducted, at no cost to the Federal Government. permit or require the imposition of quality standards for pork or pork products; provide for control of the production of pork or pork products; or otherwise limit the right of an individual pork producer to produce pork and pork products.