Restauranteurs in California are getting very concerned that a meat staple of many dishes, especially in breakfast-centred restaurants, is going to be gutted from their menus in January. Beginning then, much of the U.S. pork production will be prohibited from sale in the state. In Iowa, for example, a major pork supplier for California, it is estimated only four per cent of the state’s hog production operations will be able to ship into California.
In 2018, voters passed a measure mandating more space where pigs, laying hens and veal calves were raised. Pig producers have been loath to spend the hundreds of millions of dollars required to overhaul production barns and systems to meet a law they didn’t believe would stand. The Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution prohibits one state from restraining trade among other states.
Many expected such a blatant move by California to set its own restrictive production standards and impose them on other states’ producers would be disallowed. But a lawsuit filed by the North American Meat Institute and joined by attorneys general in multiple states lost in California’s district court, lost at the very liberal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case.
Poor California. Gee… that is too bad.
ESAD California. The time has come to take Pancho Villa’s advice. Show those crazy MF’s the wall.
The Tofu Lobby rejoices.
First came soy beef. Will there now be soy swine?
Brought to you by People Insisting on Safe Tofu and Other Foods (PISTOF).
Nice! make it “Other Fine Foods” and you can improve the phonetic spelling a little.
Thanks. I couldn’t think of how to add an extra “F” to it and still have it make sense.
By that way, that added letter could also stand for “freaky”, couldn’t it? I mean, what sensible person would want to eat test-tube meat?
But wait! How long before people insist that those soy beans be grown free-range? After all, cultivating those plants under such cramped conditions, such small spacing and in those rows could be hard on the produce, couldn’t it?
I think that the trick is to make it sound like it’s a term they came up with, so insisting that eating something with the texture and flavour is “fine” food sounds about right.
After all, some of them probably haven’t figured out why no-one is trying to sell soy flavoured bacon.
As for free range, I think we should point out to them that coal is concentrated sunlight for thousands of years, so if they want to have clean soy they’ll need to grow it underground and without light. I would try eating some of it, but my wife assures me that I’m not a fun guy.
Reminds me of the movie “Soylent Green”, which I think came out in the late 1960’s.
I myself have not seen it but family and friends have made numerous references to it over the years.
BM:
It was released in, as I recall, 1973. (I remember seeing the TV ads for it when I was finishing Grade 12.) It stars Charlton Heston and Edward G. Robinson in his last movie.
Based on the novel “Make Room! Make Room!” by Harry Harrison, published in 1966. As a teen reading sci-fi his Stainless Steel Rat books I didn’t realize what a socialist that author was.
What is the saying? Oh yes, elections have consequences.
What does California ship out to other states?
-wine
-avocadoes
-fruit, citrus, and otherwise
-and the top three;
https://www.bls.gov/mxp/publications/regional-publications/charts/california-top-6-exports.htm
see where I’m going with this?
Is there anything in there that can’t be bought/made elsewhere? How about enticing more of the manufactures to set up outside of California. Hit them in the wallet.
Other States should impose similar restrictions on Cali products.
Have you seen those poor avocado groves? All those trees suffering, crammed together in long, narrow rows.
Avocado trees should be replanted so that each tree has adequate space to grow, move, play, and express its feelings or determine its own gender. Each tree should be relocated so that no tree is less than 100 feet from the next nearest tree.
And grapes. Grape vines are literally tied to a rack. How can they grow properly when they are bound like that?
– People for the Ethical Treatment of Plants
Well done
Grey…BRAVO..!!
Do not laugh. I saw a video about how trees form a community and communicate with each other. They were interviewing a UBC professor and some of her grad students (of course).
“Grape vines are literally tied to a rack. ” Wine is rape.
// The Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution prohibits one state from restraining trade among other states. //
The Commerce Clause permeates much of federal legislation, since it’s first application against one state
sending pollution from a beer factory downriver into another.
But what is happening here is market power. California has effected changes in car manufacturing just by
setting standards for itself; Texas has [often malignly] influenced school textbooks in the same manner.
Not surprising that the suit lost.
Your error is in the notion that CA is purchasing the product. They are not. The are restricting their citizens rights to buy the product.
On the other hand, the state purchases the textbooks.
“The are restricting their citizens rights to buy the product.”
Nobody’s restricting citizens’ rights to buy bacon; within California, it’s just going to be in shorter supply, and it’s going to cost more. There is no constitutional right to a great deal on salt-cured pork belly products.
And increased sales in border towns.
I started off thinking I disagreed with you Dizzy. As it progressed I gained a better appreciation of your point.
California didn’t try to say “you must produce cars for elsewhere that…”, they said “if you want to sell your cars here, then… Being a market of 30 million at the time that was the 5th biggest economy in the world meant that they had the economic clout to dictate the minimum entry to their market as the average production value for those products. They had enough demand to warrant the companies wanting to sell there, so voluntarily agree to the changes/new standard.
If, say New Brunswick were to say “here are the minimum standards to sell cars here” then major auto manufacturers would look at the size of the economy, and the market, and shrug and say “ok, enjoy walking.”
If one can limit vehicles sold within the state on antipollution standards, then why shouldn’t animal rights arguments be equally acceptable for limiting what is developed and what comes into the state? But is it too much of a lift? If the cost of meeting the California standard is higher than the profits that could be achieved by selling elsewhere (cough, cough China with sewer-grease flavour) then why would anyone try to meet the California standard? I hope that movie execs like tofu, that might soon be all that is available to them. Unless they decide to flout the laws on the assumption that laws are for little people and don’t apply to them.
Or is this another CCP trick to make (Californian) Americans poorer?
// They had enough demand to warrant the companies wanting to sell there, so voluntarily agree to the changes/new standard. //
That’s right.
The European regulatory system has similar effects on a larger scale. As Britain is finding out.
“But what is happening here is market power.
What is happening in California is similar to Quebec in Canada.
Both have french laundries, and cater to their own governors at the expense of the entire country .
Originally the commerce clause was to prohibit one state from regulating commerce between states. (The granting of conflicting monopolies on ferry traffic between New York and New Jersey was one example. They cannot both grant a monopoly.) Filburn v. Wickard (1942) extended the idea to prohibiting a famer from growing wheat to make bread for his own consumption because that depressed the interstate demand for wheat.
First they came for the bacon.
This is the most discriminatory thing I’ve ever seen, directly targeting Hispanic culture and cuisine.
I’m sure there are plenty of buyers in China for the product that went to California.
So am I. It was no accident that Terry Branstad, our governor at the time, was appointed by Donald Trump to be the USA’s ambassador to China.
There are also plenty of buyers in China for corn and soybeans produced in Iowa.
Buy nothing from CA.
Recalls have consequences
They have more important issues to deal with than food supply:
California Is Set To Outlaw Unannounced Condom Removal
https://reason.com/2021/09/09/california-is-set-to-outlaw-unannounced-condom-removal/
All those poor Californians without their bacon and sausage?
Because you damned well know Nancy Pelosi, Jack Dorsey, Marc Zuckerberg. and Hollywood are going to have their pork products, the super-rich easily can afford it. In a few months it will become a symbol of conspicuous consumption.
The working class folks? Maybe for Sundays, maybe just for special occasions. Well back to the original thought,
All those poor Californians without their bacon and sausage? F*CK YOU!!! You Voted for it!!!
Two observations from somebody who spent thirty-four years living, studying, and working in Silicon Valley and now lives in Iowa:
– Iowa raises more pigs than any other state in the USA. In fact, it raises as many pigs as the next three states combined.
– Donald Trump made enough appointments to the Ninth Circuit Court of appeals that it is no longer correct to call it “very liberal”
Build special farms for hogs shipping to California and price the custom pork accordingly. Everyone else gets off-the-rack pork at regular price.
Hope bacon prices come down a bit now.
Their government can’t even prohibit street defecation yet spends its time on this?
Haji…
BANG on…..TRUTH..!!
Hogs over Humans, that’s the priority.
I give it about twenty minutes until a thriving trade in black market pork lifts off.
New world food snob problems.
No pork at Basha Foods market.
Our pork and beef comes from free range non tilled native grassland ranch. We splurge once a month.
First World Problems.
Faster Harder.
I foresee the mafia starting a whole new line of products.
If California wants to starve and travel on foot,who am I to argue?
I would propose a referendum on two nations in North America.
Mexico to the North Pole
One for the virtue signallers and one for the tool users.
With no migration permitted for 5 years after choosing.(Except for deporting parasites and do-gooders out of the productive zones)
Cause without the ability to steal from the productive,most Liberal Enclaves would not last 3 years.
And we would be richly entertained as after ditching Holly-weird we can fly camera drones over the righteous territories ..No actors nor scripts needed.
I have visions of Smokey and the Bandit (aka TURD FERGUSON) making bacon runs into Cali to supply Chef Ramsey
I wonder… how many un-serialized gold Kreugerrrands does it require to have the Supreme Court ignore its duties?