Political Quotes

“the recent Supreme Court ruling in favor of the California law that is called Proposition 12, affecting the pork industry, has sent shock waves through the entire agricultural industry. Particularly hard-hit by the news is my State of Iowa, which is No. 1 in pork and No. 1 in eggs; and another proposition California law affects the selling of eggs in California. California is 15 percent of the national market for pork, so you can see what California is doing can have a big impact on the pork industry in the other 49 States. If California can regulate pork producers out of business through costly and unrealistic regulation, which food will be next? What segment of agriculture will be negatively affected next? Consumers should be waking up to the reality of activist policies coming from folks on the left who want to put the kibosh on animal agriculture. California's law is based on arbitrary and prescriptive standards that lack any scientific, technical, or agricultural basis. It also jeopardizes sow safety. And for you city slickers, ``sow'' is the word we use for mother pigs. The cost to implement Proposition 12 has been measured to be approximately $3,500 per sow--a cost that farmers would need to pass on to the consumer. This additional cost will threaten the independent pork producers in rural Iowa and run them out of business due to burdensome regulations. I am not only speaking for Iowa pork producers, even though we are No. 1 in pork production.…”