Posted on 01/28/2015 7:24:39 PM PST by ObamahatesPACoal
California has a way of living up to the worst regulatory expectations, as grocery shoppers across the country are discovering. The state’s latest animal-rights march is levying a punishing new food tax on the nation’s poor.
Egg prices are soaring in California, where the USDA says the average price for a dozen jumbo eggs is $3.16, up from $1.18 a dozen a year ago, and in some parts of the state it’s more than $5.
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The state legislature realized this would put home-state farmers at a disadvantage, so in 2010 it compounded the problem by requiring that eggs imported from other states come from farms meeting the same cage standards, effective Jan. 1, 2015.
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There’s a strong argument that this violates the Constitution’s Commerce Clause, which bars states from discriminating against interstate trade. The feds regulate egg safety, and California’s cage standards discriminate against out-of-state poultry producers.
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Most people do not realize how wonderful those cage-free eggs are.
The hard working hens lay eggs and all the hens get credit. No hen is exalted over another, if a hen has a bad day it is fine, Utopia on the farm.
California politics is a very nasty circus.
Good. It needs to be $17.76 per container. Then maybe the people in CA would get a clue as to how they’re being screwed by liberal policies.
You are aware of course that there are a hell of a lot of us in California that have no choice because of the demonrat border birthing voter program.
I was wondering why eggs are $4-5 a dozen all of a sudden.
Is the Scrambler in your screen name because you are extra proficient at scrambling eggs?
You live a Communist state. You have a choice. Get out now and move to a free state.
This will soon be tossed out, just as the ban on foie gras was.
Chicken mortality in the free range chickens is a lot higher than the caged chickens. Chickens fight and will peck each other to death. “Better” is somewhat subjective.
Ooh, an absolutist! Yeah I hear Texas is great if you don’t live near one of their university towns, or New York, Or Oregon Or Washington or Massachusetts or.............. well I’ll be damned there seem to be an awful lot of socialists states in this here United States, I’ll just leave ya to it while you’re still thinking about that.
There are plenty of states that aren’t as fascist-dominated as California. Far more than there are that are worse. Pick one.
It just amazes me that a few economic illiterates sitting in some stuffy chamber think they can outsmart an unfettered marketplace that copes with billions of transactions each second. Hubris at the highest level.
think they can outsmart an unfettered marketplace —
Heck, they collectively cannot outsmart a single chicken.
Just did a search, and caged chickens are healthier over all than free running.
The taste difference in eggs is due to what they are fed, not the cage or lack there of.
“no choice”
Whut? My personal experience, 1982, was getting the h*** out of southern CA, while the gettin’ was good.
Go ahead and do it before Obamalamadingdong issues an EO repealing the 9th amend, which some say covers the right to live where ever you dam well please.
A small flock of 5 or 6 golden comets will produce more eggs than most family’s can consume.
And their masters say, “Let them eat chicken sh!t...”
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