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.
I expect little impact beyond the substantial background inflation.
The idea that we won’t have bacon is ludicrous.
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Iowa beats California! No pressure on us. The soy substitutes also come from here and pig plague struck China will buy any spare pork. Eat your homegrown fruits and nuts instead.
Waiting for viral photos of Newsom eating bacon in time for the recall vote!
Yep, you’re correct. And I’ll wager there are many other things
too that even together we cannot remember.
I’ll bet, however, that both of us can remember when CA was a great place to live.
Why not just implement Sharia there....
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My mom rented her MN farmland to a pork producer.
Let the other pork producers supply CA.
Let CA pay a premium.
Hopefully common sense meets at the billfold. Wait I’m wrong cuz the libs love to pay more taxes.
My BIL drives a rendering truck in Iowa and once COVID shut everything down, pig farmers asphyxiated their stock by putting them in large confinement areas and turned up the heat and pumped carbon monoxide in from gas engines.
Said at one place, he picked up a couple thousand. Had to make a couple trips, but yeah, liberals, your way is better and kinder considering none of you have seen a pig.
Suits me. I’m a vegetarian anyway.
It’s to bad Californian’s have done this to themselves. I lived
in San Diego for 23 years (1981-2004) and by far the best breakfast
restaraunt in the world was in El Cajon, about 15 miles East of SD.
It was called the Iowa Porker and it was decorated with pictures
of Hayden Fry everywhere and like the visitors locker room
at Kennick Stadium, it had a corner area painted pink for people
who showed up wearing another schools gear. I was always sat
in the pink area because I always wore Michigan gear back then.
They served the best pork chops, the best bacon, the best pork
sausage I’ve ever had and now it will be no more. How sad.
I buy the larger 3# packs of quality bacon when on sale. I cut the strips in half and vacuum pack flat 10 Oz. packages that freeze and thaw quickly.
First they came for the carnivores, and I said nothing because I am a herbivore........well you know how it goes and how it ends. LOL
Remember the spectacularly successful era of “Prohibition”, where government do-gooders banned something people wanted “for their own good”? California will lose the tax money from farming, people will see about getting their own bacon; businesses that CAN get bacon will raise their prices... and when it all falls apart it will be: 1) “We just didn’t GO FAR ENOUGH”, 2) “People didn’t fully UNDERSTAND how NOBLE and WONDERFUL our law was”, or 3) “TRUMP’S FAULT!!!!!”
The largest pork operation in the US is the Chinese owned Smithfield in Virginia. The US exports 30% of its national pork production to China.
The upside to the California nonsense is that most US pork production is decentralized.
California is a case-study in exactly how NOT to run a state.
For sure. It was, until about the time Arnold’s husband Maria Shriver
was elected governor and then it was rapidly downhill from there.
I do remember the days though, with all the new tech and manufacturing
companies that were opening in the area at the time; if a boss pissed
you off you could quit and have another job in less than a week.
Since Cali’s collapse, I’ve never been anywhere else that was so
good for getting raises. At that time the worker bees had the most
power because there was such competition for skilled labor, it was a great time.
Just ask them, they'll tell you how smart they are.
They are more like vegans, you don't have to ask if they are, they'll tell you!
Cali has 32 military bases all fall under federal law not State. Bacon will be available at the Commissary’s. This could be a goldmine for military folks. Now me, I would have a fan in the window or by my grill, while I fried bacon daily for the dogs.
Could start a whole new category of bootlegging....bacon runners.
Of course they’ll have to be driving Teslas or Prius so nobody suspects anything.
Yep foie gras, restaurants can serve it but it must come from out of state. But with bacon they are just asking for a revolution.
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