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Republicans Ready Assault on California Animal Welfare Law
SACRAMENTO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, JUL 23 – Republicans and governors argue Proposition 12 raises production costs and retail pork prices by up to 19%, pushing for federal legislation to limit its reach beyond California.
- Republicans and pork industry allies launched a new effort on Wednesday to oppose California's Proposition 12 animal welfare law during a House Agriculture Committee hearing.
- The opposition stems from concerns that Prop 12, effective early last year and upheld by the Supreme Court in 2023, imposes costly confinement standards that disrupt state and interstate pork production laws.
- Industry witnesses, including Ohio pork producer Pat Hord, testified that compliance costs of $3,500 to $4,500 per sow and a regulatory patchwork threaten farms and raise pork prices, which have increased by nearly 20% in California year-over-year.
- GOP lawmakers introduced the Save Our Bacon Act with support from eight Republican governors, while Agriculture Committee Chair Glenn G.T. Thompson stated the need to fix Prop 12 to protect farmers' rights and interstate commerce.
- The renewed conflict suggests ongoing legislative and regulatory battles over balancing animal welfare standards with economic impacts on farmers, consumers, and interstate agricultural trade.
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