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2021 August 02 19:59 Eihposono 217¤ 752¤
CA passes law requiring animal quality of life - enough roaming room. Most pork manufacturers DO NOT comply, and probably won't by the deadline.
https://www.npr.org/2021/08/02/1023708278/bacon-california-animal-law
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2021 August 02 22:37 stuartscott 586¤ 512¤
I generally support that law - the conditions that some farm animals are kept in is inhumane, especially those 'mega farms'. It should be stopped.
An interesting statistic from the linked article: "California's restaurants and groceries use about 255 million pounds of pork a month, but its farms produce only 45 million pounds, according to Rabobank, a global food and agriculture financial services company."
When the pork producers that can't comply drop out of the Californian market the prices will go up, which could end up benefitting the smaller, independent, local farms.
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2021 August 03 01:36 poulter7 479¤ 547¤
People who are willing to pay for high-class meat will likely already have a local butcher.
This seems to be a majority of people with popular ethics not needing to care about the Californians this would put out of work. Farms will surely just move out of state? People who eat pork aren't gonna reduce their consumption considerably, so that 45million pounds will just cost more to poorer families (referenced in the article) and they'll use more gasoline/diesel to drive it.
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2021 August 03 22:10 Eihposono 592¤
Only about 20% of CA pork is from in state already so I'm not sure how much of an increase it will actually be from the transport factor + realistically we probably don't have the water to raise much livestock anyway 🥲
Pigs are theoretically quite intelligent, and their current conditions are quite atrocious (per the article many of them spend their whole lives in CRATES!). But perhaps there could have been more gradual legislation, instead of the all or nothing.
I'd agree that typically these types of changes end up feeling like a regressive tax mostly penalizing the poorest.
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2021 August 04 13:26 stuartscott 502¤
My impression is that out-of-state farms are affected more by this change, presumably because the Cali farms knew more about it or prepared for it earlier. I don't see why Cali farms would close, move, or let employees go when the import supply is reduced as surely they can sell their produce at a higher price?
I see your point that this would disproportionally affect lower-income families, perhaps as @Eihposono suggested this should have been rolled out gradually to avoid the steep price jump.
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2021 August 03 12:23 mbenbenek 208¤ 196¤
While this is obviously motivated by good intentions, it seems like another one of Cali's laws that will just push people out of the state. So far removed from something most other states would ever consider.
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2021 August 03 22:13 Eihposono 392¤
You could argue though that California as a large state has some responsibility to try to make larger change. Since we live in a capitalist country - this is perhaps a more effective way to drive national change than actual federal legislation. Per the article, the sheer cost of supporting California will likely drive full conversions since the relative cost of not serving CA is also high.
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