The “save our bacon” battle of 2025 has begun in earnest.
The pork industry and its allies inside and outside the Beltway on Wednesday launched the latest round in its yearslong fight against a 2018 California law setting animal welfare standards, with a multipronged effort focused on upcoming farm bill negotiations this fall.
Ahead of a House Agriculture Committee hearing on California’s Proposition 12 with a stacked lineup of industry witnesses, Republicans made public a letter from Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins arguing that the law has led to a “partial segmentation in the national pork market” resulting in higher consumer prices.
