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U.S. Governors send letter to Congress against Proposition 12

A letter urges Congress to reintroduce the Exposing Agricultural Trade Suppression Act to prevent states from impeding interstate agricultural trade.

Eleven Republican governors sent a letter to congressional leadership to support the reintroduction of the Exposing Agricultural Trade Suppression Act, a bill that would uphold the Commerce Clause of the Constitution by preventing states from impeding interstate agricultural trade. Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds and Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen lead the coalition of states, representing 54% of the country's pork production, in response to the Supreme Court's ruling in favor of California's Proposition 12, which dictates how pork is raised across state lines.

The letter states in part:

"Despite California's reliance on its fellow States for food, Proposition 12 threatens to disrupt the very system Californians depend on for their pork supply. Its strict, activist-drafted requirements for pig farming sharply depart from the practices which are lawful in our States. ... And due to California’s market share, 13 percent of the pork market, it would be prohibitively expensive for producers to segregate their pork from sales to California as a market destination from those products destined elsewhere."

Joint Governors Letter to Congress on CA Proposition 12

June 13, 2023/ Office of the Governor of Iowa/ United States.
https://governor.iowa.gov

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