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Missouri sues California over chicken regulations
Washington Post ^ | 02/04/2014 | Reid Wilson

Posted on 02/06/2014 3:04:31 PM PST by Rusty0604

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I don't know the details of this amendment but it sounds like more big federal government. "...amendment to the farm bill, authored by Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), that would have superseded state laws that set local standards for production"
1 posted on 02/06/2014 3:04:31 PM PST by Rusty0604
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To: Rusty0604

The regulation of interstate commerce is one of the enumerated powers granted to the Federal Government. as a state, California is not permitted to do anything more than regulate the natural characteristics (weight, size, color, albumin percent, cleanliness, etc.) of eggs sold in California.

California cannot reach into another state to regulate their methods of production.


2 posted on 02/06/2014 3:10:55 PM PST by John Valentine (Deep in the Heart of Texas)
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To: Rusty0604

While we’re at it, let’s pay those chickens a living wage.


3 posted on 02/06/2014 3:11:47 PM PST by Huskrrrr
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Yeah and why are most of the chickens white?


4 posted on 02/06/2014 3:15:09 PM PST by Currentriverrat (People are calling our President the Fresh Prince of Bill Ayers, that's not allowed is it?)
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To: John Valentine

The same should be said about guns produced in other states.


5 posted on 02/06/2014 3:18:12 PM PST by riverrunner
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To: Rusty0604

It is the Constitutional Power of Congress, not California.

“Section 8 - Powers of Congress

The Congress shall have Power ...

To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States...”


6 posted on 02/06/2014 3:21:09 PM PST by bunkerhill7 ("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.")
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To: John Valentine

Don’t bet on it. I learned from my trucker the other day that trucks coming in from out of state, or Canada, running otherwise legal emissions engines in those places, cannot come into California if the don’t meet the latest emissions standards.

Yet, I hope they don’t overplay their hand and cause a mass migration out of there as the rest of us will have to cope with the ideologically-cancerous people who allowed this crap to take root there in the first place infecting the rest of us.


7 posted on 02/06/2014 3:21:49 PM PST by x1stcav ("The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.")
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To: riverrunner

Good point. Didn’t CA ban lead ammo out of concern for the health of the shot animals? Are they going to manufacture their own bullets?

When I lived in CA many people did not know that their gas was more than the Nat’l average because of the special blends they required.


8 posted on 02/06/2014 3:22:21 PM PST by Rusty0604
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“Yeah and why are most of the chickens white?”

Yep. Pure racist!

Also: The Paternalistic egg production syndicate is totally homophobe! Only cisgender normative females are employed.


9 posted on 02/06/2014 3:22:31 PM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Grimmy

Forgot to add: ... to lay eggs. to the last bit above.


10 posted on 02/06/2014 3:24:12 PM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: x1stcav

Yes, and the small business truckers are going out of business. Hopefully, they will just move out of State and not make any deliveries that would require traveling through CA.


11 posted on 02/06/2014 3:24:17 PM PST by Rusty0604
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To: Rusty0604

Screw California, those that interfere with interstate commerce should go to jail and be stripped of their assets.


12 posted on 02/06/2014 3:27:22 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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Yeah and why are most of the chickens white?

Mulatto, they have both White and Dark meat.

13 posted on 02/06/2014 3:28:03 PM PST by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: riverrunner

Yep. The roster must be struck down.


14 posted on 02/06/2014 3:28:21 PM PST by TheDon (Inside Every Liberal is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out.)
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Sarachi sauce, British Leyland (The MG, Triumph line)VW Bug, Corvair(with some help from Ralph Nader), Diesel vehicles, wood stoves, ad, nauseum......................

All suffer or die from the effect of California's whacko demands. Their market is the standard to anyone who manufactures. If you choose to not comply, then it's not worth making your stuff or thing and segregating it's distribution and sales.

15 posted on 02/06/2014 3:29:33 PM PST by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: Rusty0604

There is so much wrong in this country anymore.

We’re f#ckt.


16 posted on 02/06/2014 3:31:48 PM PST by x1stcav ("The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.")
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To: Rusty0604
Farmers in California worried the new rules, which would increase their costs, would put them at a competitive disadvantage with egg farms in other states, so the state legislature passed a measure in 2010 to require out-of-state producers to comply with California rules.

The problem was not the federal bill (which didn't have any national standards in the final bill) but in the CA legislature impinging on interstate trade by passing a bill requiring out of state producers to comply with CA standards.

I think the general rule is that states may set standards that exceed federal standards for in state business but can't ban the sale of out of state products as long as those products meet federal standards.

I don't know what the legality is of banning products for which there are no federal standards. It seems like a clear violation of the commerce clause, but I don't sit on the Supreme Court.

17 posted on 02/06/2014 3:38:36 PM PST by Valpal1 (If the police can t solve a problem with violence, they ll find a way to fix it with brute force)
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To: John Valentine

Exactly. But they can ban the incoming eggs. Will be interested to see what they do. States’ rights all around.


18 posted on 02/06/2014 4:03:28 PM PST by RIghtwardHo
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I would think if farmers from other States don’t want to change the size of their coops they don’t have to but they also don’t have to sell their eggs to CA.


19 posted on 02/06/2014 4:07:46 PM PST by Rusty0604
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To: blackdog

S@W and Ruger both said they well not sell their semi autos in CA any more.


20 posted on 02/06/2014 4:08:46 PM PST by riverrunner
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