[subsaharancoder]

Now we add "State with the most expensive pork" to the accolades CA has amassed over time..as if things weren't bad as is...

[solarmist]

I'm all for the reducing suffering of any living animal when possible even when it increases prices.

Of course this increases the need to pay decent wages to employees too.

[nozzlegear]

“State with the most humanely-sourced pork” seems like an accolade that’s just as fitting. Although I’m a vegetarian from a state that would rather shrink the size of pig cages than expand them, so maybe I’m too detached from the price of pork.

[rs999gti]

https://animalsmart.org/feeding-the-world/products-from-anim...

Pork products are used in a lot of other things than meat and hide.

[subsaharancoder]

> “State with the most humanely-sourced pork” seems like an accolade that’s just as fitting. Which no one can afford except the ultra rich in turn punishing the middle class who buy pork because its an affordable source of protein, but hey as long as the pigs are getting their additional space!

[olliej]

“I don’t care how much the animal suffers as long as it’s cheap for me at the end”?

[vinyl7]

California is well on its way into gentrifying such that only the rich oligarchs can live here.

[UncleMeat]

Vegetarian food choices remain the cheapest option for everybody. The people who base their personality on thinking tofu is icky have higher food budgets - the horror.

[solarmist]

If reducing suffering for living things is gentrification then where’s the line?

[gamblor956]

Based on what the pork producers were saying, this will have the effect of making all American pork products more expensive, since effectively all pork in the U.S. would have to be raised to CA standards in order to be sold to CA customers.

CA customers already pay more for their pork than most other states' residents (beef and chicken are a large part of CA agriculture but pork is not), so the practical effect is a small relative increase in pork prices for CA residents and a huge relative increase in pork prices for everyone outside of CA.

[abhorrence]

"since effectively all pork in the U.S. would have to be raised to CA standards in order to be sold to CA customers"

Couldn't producers decide not to sell pork to California? Or perhaps to segment production?

[unethical_ban]

So we are subsidizing our pork consumption with animal suffering.