Source: Dan Flynn, FOOD SAFETY NEWS, 8/31/21


When California voters passed Proposition 12, it was all about animal welfare and food safety. In recent days, however, the Los Angeles Times has predicted the state’s consumers are shortly in for skyrocketing pork prices and pork shortages, an era the newspaper predicts will become known as “Bacongate.” California won the right to impose Prop 12 housing standards on pigs raised in any state if they are sold in the Golden State. Prop 12 requires 24 square feet of room for each gestating sow.

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