California has a whole bunch of laws that interfere with interstate commerce. Horse meat is illegal, for one. I know not many eat it but it is legal in other states. California also banned Fois Gras (goose liver). Said it is cruel to the geese. Not to mention the asinine and burdensome firearm laws, automotive laws - heck we even have laws banning certain types of hair products!
California is a huge agricultural state, so it wouldn’t surprise me if some of this isn’t good old fashioned protectionism at play. It probably should be illegal.
In theory were California’s own Constitution permissive of the measure, Californian could prohibit the sale of any Good inside the State of California regardless of where it came from.
It is only protectionism if Californians are at liberty to produce and sell the same good or Service within California.
As it is California producers are at denied this market access everywhere both at home in California and around the US and world. Leaving them at a huge disadvantage as the non-California market is incapability far bigger than the California Market.
Insolently this democrat and the lawless 9th circuit have gotten the Constitution dead wrong once again. Clearly their trying to force the politics of the issue into Washington’s court, while ignoring the very obvious contradiction that States are and always have been at liberty to ban any other Good or service from their local markets.
But i suppose it wouldn’t be the Federal employees in black robes we have all come to know if the written law were to have anything to do with their normally ideological and corrupt edits.
Aldi’s grocery stores have had several scandals about beef casserole and frozen dinners with “beef” actually being horse.
But you’re right, most people don’t knowingly go out and buy horse meat.