IARN — California’s Proposition 12 seeks to ban the sale of pork from hogs that don’t meet the state’s arbitrary production standards, even if the pork was raised on farms outside of California.
The Supreme Court just decided to hear a challenge to the law by Farm Bureau and the National Pork Producers Council. Travis Cushman, AFBF Senior Counsel for Public Policy, said the decision is a significant milestone.
“It’s a very exciting decision, it means the Supreme Court is interested in reviewing whether or not what California has done here is constitutional,” Cushman said. “That’s an incredibly high bar to reach, the Supreme Court takes less than one percent of cases a year that come before it, which means that there are a ton of cases that are very deserving but never had the opportunity. But here, the Supreme Court, at least views that we have reached that bar to decide this important issue.”
Cushman said that Prop 12 has far-reaching consequences beyond the pork industry.
For more on this story, including audio with Travis Cushman, visit the Iowa Agribusiness Radio Network.
