U.S. pork producers continue to lobby Congress to find a legislative fix for California’s Proposition 12, the law requiring pork sold in California to be raised under strict guidelines.
Lori Stevermer, a Minnesota pork producer and president of the National Pork Producers Council says producers don’t want a patchwork of regulations across the country. “We are looking forward to the farm bill as finding a federal solution for Prop 12,” she says. “That’s what the Supreme Court said it’s an issue and it said that Congress needs to fix it.
