Posted on 12/12/2021 4:50:11 PM PST by simpson96
ELLIOTT, Iowa (AP) — A coalition of California restaurants and grocery stores has filed a lawsuit to block implementation of a new farm animal welfare law, adding to uncertainty about whether bacon and other fresh pork products will be much more expensive or in short supply in the state when the new rules take effect on New Year’s Day.
The lawsuit is the latest step in a tumultuous three-year process of enacting rules overwhelmingly approved by voters
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Politicians in California believe it is their moral imperative to impose their morality on everyone...
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Indeed they do. On everyone except themselves. Pork for me but no for thee.
The only way the voters of California are going to change is if they hit rock bottom.
They had their chance to right the ship a few months ago and didn’t.
For vegetarians there is always GREENBEEFOS! A veggie that tastes and bleeds like meat. But there is a price to pay...
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I’ve visited a hog farm. It’s was nothing like what you say. It had no smell and the farrowing (birthing) building was amazingly clean.
Eh, California’s Jewish percentage (3.0%) is three times that its Muslim population (1%).
Just don’t sell bacon in Cali. They can cross the State Line in Nevada,and buy it there.
On the bright side; if CA makes bacon more expensive Californians will eat less bacon leading to more supply of bacon in other states which should lower prices there.
Thanks, CA! CO likes cheaper bacon. :)
I have been in the hog barns as a contractor. No one is allowed in that does not work there. Good security.
That's what happened to the dairy industry in Southern California. Western Orange County and the lower San Gabriel Valley was dairy country, and many of the dairy farms were owned by Americans of Dutch ancestry. But as housing developments moved in, new residents sued the dairy farmers over flies, odors, etc., so the dairy farms quickly disappeared. Many dairy farmers moved to Riverside County, but the same thing is happening, so now, they're moving up to Tulare County.
Ever live near a pulp and paper plant?
Give a sugar beet processing plant a sniff sometime.
I worked in a pulp and paper plant as an engineer my first year out of college. That smell never goes away. Always in your nose even when you’re hundreds of miles away.
“The plan is to price real meat out of the market, then usher in BILL GATES fake meat.”
Yep, and I feel sorry for people that I know who say to me (or think): “Oh Bob, you’re being paranoid again, no one is going to take your meat away.”
But the bottom line is the bottom line - they want to end mass consumption of meat, and the ONLY WAY they can do it is to price it out of reach...that’s why the proposed “Cow Taxes” of $4500/head (roughly $8/lb) is just a start, as that will only slightly bring down consumption (maybe 10 or 15%), and they’ll need $20/lb. to make a decent dent in consumption. If we’re lucky, they’ll stop there...but no promises.
Meat eaters soon will be the next smokers, and in Australia, they’re paying $27 a pack for cigarettes.
Cali getting exactly what it wanted. No bacon for you.
I worked in a small plastics factory on the south side of Longmont, Colorado circa 1975. If the wind blew from the south we were inundated with the smell from a cattle stock yard. If it blew from the east it was the smell of the sugar beet plant.
From the west and north the air was nice and clean.
We prayed for north or west winds but if that wasn’t possible “Lord, let it be a south wind!” Not even the turkey processing plant across the street smelled as bad as the beet plant.
As a kid, I grew up along the Potomac River downstream from the Westvaco paper mill. And a literal stone’s throw from the Kelly-Springfield tire plant. ‘Nuff said.
I worked at Buckeye Cellulose in Perry Fla. It was P&Gs most profitable plant. We made high quality filter paper for rayon manufacturing and for filters for engines, machines, etc. We spent tons on stack scrubbers to filter out by product smoke and waste/recovery recycling but the process of chip boiling with white liquor, washing/bleaching, screening, and forming/drying really did smell.
Before the EPA stepped in, Westvaco would dump their waste byproducts into the Potomac and it would carry down to town, and mother, did it smell. Nobody ate the fish out of that river. (Ironically, with the plant itself on the river, the wastewater discharge kept the river warm in that area and the fishing was fantastic even in winter.) And the tire plant? You haven’t lived until you’ve smelled, putrid, acrid rubber cooking and the smoke belching out of stacks a hundred feet high.
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