Twenty states including Nebraska, South Dakota, Iowa and 17 others have joined the American Farm Bureau and National Pork Producers Council in an effort to keep California’s Proposition 12 from being implemented. The groups are challenging that measure in the U.S Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Nebraska Farm Bureau’s Director of National Affairs Jordan Dux says Prop 12 limits housing options for livestock and will actually result in worse animal welfare.
He says if enacted Proposition 12 will lead to astronomical costs for livestock producers and will unfairly injure other states and their ag production.
Dux says their most important legal argument against Prop 12 is it violates the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution.
Dux says Proposition 12 prohibits the sale of any pork, veal or eggs produced from animals raised in accordance with California rules regardless of where those animals were raised.
