Posted on 07/31/2021 9:29:17 AM PDT by devane617
Thanks to a reworked menu and long hours, Jeannie Kim managed to keep her San Francisco restaurant alive during the coronavirus pandemic.
That makes it all the more frustrating that she fears her breakfast-focused diner could be ruined within months by new rules that could make one of her top menu items — bacon — hard to get in California.
“Our number one seller is bacon, eggs and hash browns,” said Kim, who for 15 years has run SAMS American Eatery on the city’s busy Market Street. “It could be devastating for us.”
At the beginning of next year, California will begin enforcing an animal welfare proposition approved overwhelmingly by voters in 2018 that requires more space for breeding pigs, egg-laying chickens and veal calves. National veal and egg producers are optimistic they can meet the new standards, but only 4% of hog operations now comply with the new rules. Unless the courts intervene or the state temporarily allows non-compliant meat to be sold in the state, California will lose almost all of its pork supply, much of which comes from Iowa, and pork producers will face higher costs to regain a key market.
Let ‘em eat tofu.
And beansprouts and insects.
I don’t know about California. But bacon is worth fighting over where I live.
More bacon for the rest of us!!!
On the Animal Farm, all animals are equal. Some are more equal than other.
Butcher babies from young girls without reporting the pregnancy to the police and harvest the organs when they are ripe for selling.
There was a law in CA that was overturned, somewhat related. Had to do with Goose Liver being banned. The court ruled (going from memory) that food supply is a federally regulated system with national interests at stake, and that the state cannot interfere. Maybe that is applicable here.
WeRe MaKiNg OuR CiTiZeNs EaT HeAlThY
Totalitarian rule.
Why not just implement Sharia there....
Hahahahaha, Hahahahahaha
Amazing, we’re always told that California is the most
educated state in the country, and yet, what have they done?
By popular referendum they’ve shut down their two most
reliable sources of energy, Nuclear and fossile fuels, and
now have electrical blackouts at times when energy is most needed.
Also by popular referendum, the people voted to tell farmers
in Iowa and elsewhere how to run their pig farms and if you
don’t do it California’s way they’re going to starve their
state of pork. The population in California is just brilliant.
Can’t you tell?
Black market for bacon will open up. The local Indian reservations have casino and sell cigarettes perhaps they will open up butcher shops with specials on bacon.
/s
Two legs bad four legs good as Napoleon has decreed
So California would be regulating imports from other states? That seems like an actual Commerce Clause issue.
I have seen lots of beef, sheep. Hog production on i5 in the central valley, not sure how the stupid California law Iowa or another hog, or beef, chicken producing state would follow.
More pork for China at a lower cost.
Soylent green bacon.
Between now and the first of the year I will put 5 or so 1 lb packages on bacon in my freezer.
Great, now bacon lovers are going to move to Texas.
Just ask them, they'll tell you how smart they are.
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