Posted on 10/05/2019 11:08:19 PM PDT by Farcesensitive
California was sued on Friday by the largest U.S. trade group for meat packers and processors, which wants to block enforcement of a voter-approved measure requiring farmers to provide more space for animals being raised for food.
The North American Meat Institute, whose members include processors such as Tyson Foods and retailers including Walmart, said enforcing Proposition 12 would hurt producers and consumers by significantly increasing their costs.
It also said the measure, which passed last November with 63% of the vote, was an "overreach" that violated the U.S. Constitution's Commerce Clause by requiring out-of-state producers to comply with California's rules or face a sales ban.
"Prop 12 hurts the family on a budget with higher prices for pork, veal and eggs, and unfairly punishes livestock producers outside of California by forcing them to spend millions more just to access California markets," Meat Institute President Julie Anna Potts said in a statement.
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No regulation without representation!
Whoever wrote the statement for the meat producers should have thought it out a bit more carefully. Families on a budget don’t eat veal. Not the ones I know anyway.
” Families on a budget don’t eat veal. Not the ones I know anyway.”
Nope, but they sure as heck eat chicken and pork. The CA rules could double the price of those.
You can bet the radical extremist Vegans and Peta are behind it, they are hell bent on forcing everyone to become vegans in one deceptive way or another. I hope the meat market legally prevails over this absolute insanity.
Simple. Don’t ship meat to California. There’s no shortage of people world wide who will buy it at a fair price.
After a few years of not being able to afford Prop 12 compliant $20 drumsticks, maybe the people of California will lynch their legislators. (Yeah I know the people voted for this proposition, but it’s the legislator and the bureaucrats enforce it)
That is a hold over concept from the 50s when veal was much cheaper than beef. But it had to be included in this particular debate because the tight confinement of calves to produce tender Veal has been a huge issue for years and years now and probably the very heart of the “space” issue and complaint. It had to be included and defended by the meat industry representative.
But I agree, it was a poor example to defend lower cost and more affordable meats, because it’s not, it’s now an expensive delicacy.
This law should be enforced, vigorously and to the letter.
I think you give them far too much benefit of the doubt. They will just accept that they will have to become vegan, then they will try and force the whole country to become vegan. This is what Ca does...
How about farmers no longer produce meat for sale to California? It’s what they want there anyway...make everybody vegan. Let the black market take over.
“This law should be enforced, vigorously and to the letter.”
Which one? The communist Vegan/PETA law? Or the Commerce Clause?
The fact that a black market for meat even is needed to be considered is pretty surreal and frightening. Who would have even imagined it would someday come to this extreme with the insanity. They are hell bent on reducing population one way or another.
It would be a lot easier if California just banned meat. Then they can concentrate on making abortion less painful. The vegetable diet should help their concentration.
I was paraphrasing Abraham Lincoln when he said that the best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it to the max.
Thank you, I was indeed wondering if it might have been sarcasm. :)
And you are right, “They know not what they ask for”. Problem is, there have been very few instances where the people of Ca actually recognized and admitted a mistake was made and corrected it, the mental capability is just not there. Instead they just compound the problem by adding even more mess on top of it making it completely irreversible with their “method of repealing it”.
“You can bet the radical extremist Vegans and Peta are behind it, they are hell bent on forcing everyone to become vegans in one deceptive way or another. I hope the meat market legally prevails over this absolute insanity.”
The left is a cult and like so many cults they want to make people malnourished, stupid and passive, getting people to not eat meat accomplishes that well and can be cloaked in “morality”.
Yep... And when everyone is dependent on just vegetables just one bad winter along with a following flooding summer will result in 30% or more population deaths due to starvation. They know exactly what they are doing, because this is the actual preferred end result of the game plan.
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