Wednesday, March 30, 2022

DON'T MESS WITH MY BACON

by Bob Walsh

Regular readers might remember I wrote a while back about a California law which would greatly increase the cost and greatly decrease the availability of many pork and chicken products within the formerly great state of California.  This action was taken via a ballot initiative wanting to be exceptionally nice to farm livestock.

The law is being challenged in the CA Supreme Court by the National Pork Producers Council and the National Farm Bureau Federation.  They believe the law unreasonably interferes with interstate commerce.  

Implementation of the law has been stalled due to other legal challenges.  The ballot initiative passed with 62% of the vote and sets minimum cage size standards for swine and chickens.  These standards would significantly increase costs and would apply to out-of-state producers who want to sell in CA.  Contrary to belief at the time by the PETA crowd these out-of-state producers have NOT been stampeding to comply with the CA law.  There is virtually zero production of pork within California.

1 comment:

Trey said...

Want Pork? Come and Take It. We have plenty simply roaming around tearing up pastures and lawns across Texas. So many, that trappers are hired to kill them. Most of the meat isn't even used. All you have to do is set some loose in California. I'd rather have fresh Pork Belly sliced thick than store bacon any day.