State of Bacon tells the kinda real but mostly fake tale of an oddball group of characters leading up to the annual Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival. Bacon-enthusiasts, Governor Branstad, a bacon queen, Hacksaw Jim Duggan, members of PETA, and an envoy of Icelanders are not excluded from this bacon party and during the course of the film become intertwined with the organizers of the festival to show that bacon diplomacy is not dead.

David Anthony Higgins
Bacon Dreamer

Jim Duggan
Self
Terry Branstad
Self

Chuck Grassley
Self

Anderson Cooper
Self
Björn Ófeigsson
Self
Kevin Metzger
Butcher
Randy Goodwin
Butcher
P. Brooks Reynolds
Self

Marshall Porter
Self
John Tiffany
Self
Árni Georgsson
Self
Elizabeth Ballstadt
Pepper
Alexandra Beem
Woman at Bar/Rocker Groupie
Beth Brooner
Self
Heather Burnside
Dancer
Chrissie Cartmell
Self
Jeremy Bingaman
Self
Lauren Braune
Self
J.C. Collier
Logan
Jason Cook
Jason Cook
Released