Topic: California bans sale of eggs from states that don't have same ag rules

[Glock32]

So the voters in California approved a ballot measure mandating larger enclosures for egg laying hens. Since these increased costs put California farms at a competitive disadvantage, they have now gone the extra step of banning the sale of eggs from states that do not have the same rules in effect.

Where is the precious Commerce Clause now?  And get a load of the comments.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/02/04/missouri-sues-california-over-chicken-regulations/


This may seem a small issue, but it's things like this that are indicative of the fault lines spreading throughout this country. It is increasingly apparent that the validity of the concept of "the Union" is faltering. On the Right, our manifestation of it comes in the form of wanting political separation from the Left. Their manifestation of it is nothing so benevolent as that, because being the totalitarians that they are they want to impose their way of doing things on everyone else.

[warpmine]

Soon enough my friends, the left will have more to think about than just more space for egg laying hens. No, soon they'll be looking for enough food to stuff in their faces and I for one will suggest they eat the sh*t or the paper they wrote their totalitarian rules on. Screw them.

[richb]

They have done this for years with the new auto business (and other products with gas engines).   California regulations add even more requirements for new vehicles sold new in the state then USDOT.    They have been doing so since the 1970's.   The excuse for doing so,  smog in LA.   Though more lately,  it involves things like electric cars percentages etc.   

Since few automakers want to skip out on selling new cars in California,  many cars are made to comply with their regulations,  increasing costs to all buyers nationwide.   Though some models have California only models, probably because the extra regs, makes them too expensive for other markets.    But we all pay,  because having to add things,  or have two models of basically the same thing is more costly.   

[Glock32]

I for one am sick of California regulating activity outside of its borders. It's one thing when it is done in an oblique way, such as car manufacturers implementing California rules on all their cars, but given the incestuous relationship of bureaucracy at all levels very often California rules are simply federalized. Notice you can't buy a new gas can worth a damn in the past several years? How they all come with these awkward, goofy-ass nozzles? Yeah, thank California for that too. It was mandated by CARB. The Federal EPA then decided to incorporate it into federal regulation.

[Pandora]

And they're at it again, this time with smartphones.

[AlanS]

And they're at it again, this time with smartphones.

Let's don't do anything about crime, we'll just disable the stolen items.

[Libertas]

At first I saw an opportunity for a egg-tossing protest...but maybe the smartphones would hurt more.

[oldcoastie6468]

How California Voters Raised the Price of Eggs Across America
March 7, 2014 by Daniel Greenfield

In 2008, California voters endorsed Proposition 2 which banned the confinement of animals. California egg producers had to ensure that chickens had enough room to move around which negated so-called “factory farming” and would end up raising the price of eggs by 20%.
 
Obviously this was a problem for California agriculture which would have trouble competing on price with free agriculture. And there’s only so much of a market for fair-trade free-range organic chickens lovingly raised in a Quaker school by social justice experts on a strict diet of granola and NPR broadcasts.

And so California’s reds decided to instead raise the price of eggs across America. Sounds fair, right?

Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster (D) said Tuesday morning he has filed a federal lawsuit against the state of California over the Golden State’s new regulations on enclosures that house egg-laying hens. The regulations, Koster alleges, violate the constitution’s Commerce Clause.

California voters in 2008 passed a ballot initiative that require larger enclosures for egg-laying hens. Farmers in California worried the new rules, which would increase their costs, would put them at a competitive disadvantage with egg farms in other states, so the state legislature passed a measure in 2010 to require out-of-state producers to comply with California rules.

That, Koster says, is unfair to his state’s egg producers.

“If California legislators are permitted to mandate the size of chicken coops on Missouri farms, they may just as easily demand that Missouri soybeans be harvested by hand or that Missouri corn be transported by solar-powered trucks,” Koster said in a statement.

California farmers must begin complying with the cage law beginning in 2015, under the terms of Proposition 2. The legislature requires out-of-state farmers to begin complying with the same rules by the end of that year.

Koster’s office estimated that Missouri egg producers would have to pay $120 million to expand the size of their coops, and that production costs would rise 20 percent.”

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/how-california-voters-raised-the-price-of-eggs-across-america/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-california-voters-raised-the-price-of-eggs-across-america

[Libertas]

California chickens.