Soon, no one in California will
be able to bring home the bacon
American Thinker,
by
Andrea Widburg
Original Article
Posted By: Magnante,
8/2/2021 3:08:37 AM
In just five months, California may well be the first state in America that effectively bans any pork products. This is because, back in 2018, voters approved an animal welfare proposition setting out space requirements standards for those who breed pigs, egg-laying chickens, and veal calves. While chicken farmers and veal producers across America have mostly met those standards, it seems the hog farmers have had a harder time. This is an interesting story because it touches upon the laws of unintended consequences and the effect a state like California has on the rest of America.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
caljeepgirl 8/2/2021 3:43:06 AM (No. 864912)
Oink.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 8/2/2021 3:43:46 AM (No. 864913)
"...California’s going about it the wrong way. This change should be organic, coming from the people and driving the marketplace, rather than a single state’s mandate that destroys businesses, wipes out a major part of people’s diets, and negatively affects the whole of the United States."
I know I studied the Constitution way back in the last century, but isn't this type of nonsense the reason for the interstate commerce clause? I know that commies have stretched the meaning of that clause all out of proportion to allow federal over reach, but c'mon, man! It should at least be used for its original purpose!
As to this stupid proposition, I can barely remember it. TK and I just vote "No" on all props as a matter of general policy. The California commies have taken over the proposition option, originally designed as a tool of the people against the legislature, to push policies that can't even get approved by the Dim controlled Assembly and Senate! There is little advertising for propositions, there's always a long list on every ballot, unless its a big one like Prop. 8 imposing homosexual marriage. No one ever reads the thick proposition voter guide and most vote only on the title and summary paragraph that appears on the ballot. "Humane Treatment of Animals!" - who can be against that! "Yes!" And, so the commie agenda is spread across the nation. My sincerest apologies. I do what I can.
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There will be bacon but it will be expensive. That will lead to massive smuggling of pork products from Mexico and other States.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Rand Al'Thor 8/2/2021 4:27:34 AM (No. 864920)
FTA - "It turns out that California “consumes roughly 15% of all pork produced in the country.” If pork producers are suddenly deprived of their California customers, they’ll have to raise prices elsewhere to offset that loss"
What happened to the laws of supply and demand? Loss of California as a pork consumer results in excess supply and lower costs for the rest of us.
14 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
5 handicap 8/2/2021 5:44:48 AM (No. 864938)
I'll double my bacon consumption, ummm. I do what I can for America. To hell with California, c'mon San Andreas, do your thing and dump the garbage into the Pacific.
9 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
Flyball Dogs 8/2/2021 5:54:49 AM (No. 864947)
This sentence jumped out:
“ The National Pork Producers Council has asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture for federal aid to help pay for retrofitting hog facilities around the nation to fill the gap.”
Is there NO ONE that doesn’t ask for “federal aid”?
We’re worried about Socialism/ communism. We’re already there.
21 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
Calvinesq 8/2/2021 6:22:34 AM (No. 864969)
It will only take a short time for the black market to be up and running, and thriving.
8 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
GO3 8/2/2021 7:11:33 AM (No. 865004)
We could always go with the feral hog route, but the bacon might not be that good.
3 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
skacmar 8/2/2021 7:12:20 AM (No. 865006)
Will California set up Pork Police patrols at the border. Smart entrepreneurs will be opening pork stores and warehouses in border states to sell to pork hungry California's. Someone will make a lot of money from this silly ban.
8 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 8/2/2021 7:44:34 AM (No. 865062)
When you put the central planners in charge of a product you get a shortage of it.
11 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
homefry 8/2/2021 8:18:40 AM (No. 865133)
How 'bout fatback?
2 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
cor-vet 8/2/2021 8:26:35 AM (No. 865141)
My poor heart and arteries are going to suffer, but I'll do what I can to help the producers out. It's the least I can do!
3 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 8/2/2021 8:57:44 AM (No. 865190)
Looks like Asian food will substitute Sweet and Sour Tofu for pork. Should be scrumptious!
4 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
jkb 8/2/2021 9:43:07 AM (No. 865239)
FTA: "Hog farmers said they haven’t complied because of the cost and because California hasn’t yet issued formal regulations on how the new standards will be administered and enforced." More of Pelosi's we've got to pass the bill to find out what's in the bill nonsense. I'll happily eat 15% more bacon if we can just ignore CA. So tired of California regulations trying to lead the rest of the nation around by the nose. "May cause cancer in California". I'm not in CA so I'm good. Pass the sausage, please.
9 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
DVC 8/2/2021 10:05:30 AM (No. 865268)
So, now the bacon smugglers will be setting up their routes. I envision a monthly "bacon run" to Arizona, Nevada or Oregon by the real bacon lovers.
Long haul truckers will bring back a cooler full for friends.
Will they re-open the California border stations of the 50s and 60s where they confiscated fruit, now confiscating bacon?
4 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
mc squared 8/2/2021 10:28:24 AM (No. 865300)
Nothing better than doing exactly what the woke crowd wants. California also want to ban high powered computers because they use too much energy.
California and Five Other States Ban... Gaming Computers?
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2021/07/28/california-and-five-other-states-ban-gaming-computers-n1465203
Let them ban i-phones next. See who howls.
5 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
nelsonted1 8/2/2021 10:47:58 AM (No. 865331)
They did this because they don't like mother hogs in farrowing crates. Just before the hogs birth they are put in a crate that only allows them to stand up and lay down. They stay there until the baby's 28 th day.....what they are for is to keep the mothers who weigh 300 lbs from laying on their five or.ten lb babies. They are standing up for the mothers. Who stands up for the babies who are risking their lives?.....we had a pet.sow who had had eight piglets and promptly laid on five of them. Again, don't the babies have a champion?
7 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
DVC 8/2/2021 11:10:43 AM (No. 865382)
Thank you, #17, for the injection of facts and sanity into this latest example of California official insanity.
2 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
MickTurn 8/2/2021 11:32:14 AM (No. 865426)
BUT but...the Ugly Lib Women will take up the Oink Slack!
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
SALady 8/2/2021 11:33:23 AM (No. 865429)
Hey, that just means way more bacon for the rest of the country!!! And it may even be a little cheaper!!!
Sounds like a win for the rest of us!!!
6 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
kono 8/2/2021 7:08:02 PM (No. 865969)
Law of unintended consequences? Please. Eliminating pork from the market was very much the intention of the proposition's backers intended.
1 person likes this.
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