California’s Proposition 12 regulates the housing standards for pregnant sows, laying hens, and veal calves. California Republican Congressman John Duarte does not support this animal welfare measure. “This is disgusting,” Duarte told farm broadcasters. “This is just somebody’s morality exercised in policy in California affecting the affordability of animal protein for California residents.” Duarte compares Prop 12 to the mining of critical minerals overseas. “I’m a lot more concerned about human slave labor in the Congo than I am about telling the farmer who raises pigs and has a very economic and deep interest in their health and welfare how to raise a pig or how a chicken should lay an egg.”
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