A new study from RaboResearch suggests the US pork supply chain could face serious disruption in 2022 if California’s animal welfare regulations are implemented as written.
Christine McCracken, senior analyst for animal protein with Rabobank says California accounts for 14 percent of US pork consumption, but produces less than 2 percent of its own pork needs. “Roughly 20 percent of US pork would need to be compliant,” she says. “As a result you’d seen an inability to reach sufficient quantities by the deadline and a shortage of pork in California.”
Which, she tells Brownfield, would likely result in increased costs for consumers.
