Find butchers, farms, ranches, restaurants and other food businesses in Arkansas that sell meat from raised or harvested animals, plus the Arkansas rules and official resources worth knowing.
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These Arkansas laws are on our Meat Laws page, which lists only laws we could check against an official state source or court record. Laws change and some are in court, so check the source for the latest.
Bars representing a product as meat if it isn't from harvested livestock, poultry or cervids, among other label rules.
Status (Oct. 2026): Partly in effect. Challenged in court: in 2022 a federal court blocked one provision statewide and blocked several others as applied to one plant-based company. Check source.
Yes. Arkansas runs its own State Meat and Poultry Inspection (MPI) program, one of 31 states that do. State programs must be "at least equal to" federal inspection, and state-inspected products can be sold within Arkansas. The state program covers meat only, so poultry plants in Arkansas that need inspection are inspected by USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). (USDA FSIS list of state inspection programs)
Either way, plants under federal inspection can sell anywhere in the U.S., and custom-exempt meat processed for an owner's own household is marked "Not for Sale." On a package, a USDA mark of inspection with an establishment number means federal inspection, and a state mark means state inspection. See what to look for on a package.
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