A group of 15 State Attorneys General including Nebraska and Iowa want the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on state livestock standard laws. Michigan, Rhode Island and Massachusetts have joined California in considering or passing legislation that seek to stop the sale of livestock or poultry from other states in their respective states. National Association of Egg Farmers President Ken Klippen hopes the U.S. Supreme Court takes up the issue because Interstate Commerce is being limited.
He says his organization and several other ag groups are also supporting Iowa Congressman Steve King’s Protect Interstate Commerce Act as a provision in the new farm bill.
Klippen says despite opponents claim that Steve King’s measure exceeds agriculture, the measure itself is geared only toward agriculture and interstate commerce.
The whole issue started in California when that state passed a law saying eggs could only come from cage free hens and that resulted in limiting eggs coming in from other states violating the commerce clause.
