Feds Coming To The Rescue Over Eggs?
The Los Angeles Times reports a measure has been introduced in congress to prohibit California from enforcing a recently passed law that shuts off the flow of less expensive eggs into the state. That law being the result of Prop 2, the ballot initiative from a few years ago that required chickens to be raised in larger cages.
State legislators, knowing the California egg industry might collapse if people switched to less expensive out of state eggs, passed the law so Californians might have no choice but to buy California eggs.
I would have preferred a lawsuit filed against California by private entities, but this federal law will do, if passed. That's what the federal government is supposed to do, ideally, isn't it ? Protect our rights?
Our newly elected congressman, sleazebag Jared Huffman, was the sponsor of the California bill restricting import of eggs. Naturally, he's not happy. He calls it, "...one of the most overreaching acts of federal government.".
Nope. Not at all. When a state tries to deprive its citizens of less expensive food, I should hope the feds would step in.
Rep. Robert W. Goodlatte (R-Va.) has it right: "The people of California have an absolute right to tell their producers in California how they're going to raise agricultural products...But that does not mean that they can ... without challenge by the Congress, say that no other product from any state can come in unless it complies with those regulations."
Yep. If the idiots in this state want to pass a law raising the price of locally grown eggs and put their egg industry in peril, that's fine, but they should have to stew in their own juices over that decision.
They should not be able to restrict the supply of foodstuffs from outside the state in an attempt to protect their ill advised vote. This is food we're talking about, after all. Not even North Korea restricts the types of food that comes into their country.
Some of the comments to the L.A. Times from those who think the state has the right to shut off the borders to food from other states are appalling. It's convinced me even more that we should be in a shooting war over this.
posted by Fred Mangels @ 5:58 AM
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Are you serious Fred? Do you have all the brand names memorized so that when you go the store you can make an informed choice to choose eggs that weren't part of the half billion egg recall from one Iowa farm?
10 States Report Salmonella Cases
The recalled eggs were distributed to food wholesalers, distribution centers and foodservice companies in Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Washington, Utah and Wisconsin. These companies may have distributed Salmonella enteritidis tainted eggs nationwide.
Recalled eggs are packaged under the following brand names: Albertsons, Boomsma, Cardenas Market (plastic overwrapped 60-egg cases), Dutch Farms, Farm Fresh, James Farms, Glenview, Hillandale, Lucerne, Mountain Dairy, Ralphs, Lund, Kemps, Pacific Coast, Shoreland, Sunshine, Sunny Farms, Sunny Meadow, Trafficanda and Trafficanda Egg Ranch brand names. Eggs are packed in varying sizes of cartons (6-egg cartons, dozen egg cartons, 18-egg cartons, 20 count overwrap, 30-egg cartons, 5 dozen egg cases). Loose eggs and eggs intended for institutional use and repackaging are sold in 15 and 30 dozen tray packs and CRF 20 and 30 egg overwrap units sold under the brand names COUNTRY EGGS, Inc., Wholesome Farms, West Creek, Alta Dena Dairy, Driftwood Dairy, Hidden Villa Ranch, and Challenge Dairy. On the recalled egg packaging, Julian dates range from 099 to 230 and plant numbers are listed as 1026, 1413, 1720, 1942, 1946, 1860 and 1663. However, individual eggs may have been re-packaged by customers. Additionally, eggs marketed under the brand names Albertsons (large one dozen and 18 count), Farmer’s Gems (large one dozen), Mountain Dairy (large one dozen), and Yucaipa (large one dozen) as well as large loose food service packages have been recalled by Moark, LLC who obtaines shell eggs produced by Hillandale. The plant number for these recalled eggs is 1156 with Julian date 187.
http://www.myfoodadvocate.com/egg-salmonella-recall.asp
What does that have to do with anything? Every now and then you get some sort of food poisoning from any kind of food, some of it even comes from California.
"Henchman Of Justice" says,
For those too stupid or naive to listen, research and understand,
California = where bureaucrats "intentionally" make decisions that raises the costs of living....the ole "bottom-up" economics.
Problem is, bottom-up don't work; nor does top-down work.
Such the conundrom voters in California must be wise about - higher societal costs versus lower societal costs.
California is all about taxation and waste, therefore California Government NEEDS HIGHER COSTS TO TAX AND WASTE!
Simple understanding, really
HOJ
When a company sells under so many different names, even a recall becomes hard to do. It makes it hard on the consumer to avoid that company in the future. It removes choice when 25 choices are actually only 1 choice. I would just prefer a label of origin with the name of the company and zip code even if it is sold under a supermarket brand name.
Just like GMO's. Some say they are great and others don't want to support them. When they say we don't have a right to know if GMO's are in our food, we can't make an educated choice. I stand by choice and transparency. I also say that chickens are treated better in California than Iowa based on how many people California eggs have killed verses Iowa eggs. Healthier chickens make healthier eggs. Healthier eggs make healthier people. Hiding information and or keeping it off the label is cause enough to keep that product out of our state if we choose to do so.
Then buy eggs you know come from California. That's easy enough to do. I believe most of the eggs in Winco are from California.
Don't tell the rest of us that want to just buy eggs we have to buy them your way. You already have your preferred choice, yet are trying to take away everyone else's right to choose.
I think all Tom is trying to say is without the proper information it's impossible to make an educated decision on what you're ingesting into your body whereas I don't think government should be able to restrict what you eat I do believe you should have a right to know what's in it and where it came from especially with GMOs which in studies does extensive damage to rats and pigs and anybody who has raise chickens before knows that free range eggs are better quality bettet tasting and healthier for you to eat that being said I thinking an individual has a right to pick and choose what food you want to eat but without proper labeling that is nearly impossible
If you're not comfortable with the label information on certain foods, don't buy those foods. Go to a natural foods store to do your shopping. Some people already do that, you know?
Fred you do realize they're finding GMO products in natural food stores too because they're not on the label so people don't know what they're in I guess I could just stop eating everything
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