Tell Congress to Pass the Food Price Fix!
A California Law is Driving
Food Prices Higher
While the media has focused bird flu’s effect on egg prices, there’s a second culprit for your higher food costs. California recently enacted a law called Proposition 12. Prop 12 imposed costly new regulations for producing eggs and pork, and banned grocery stores from selling products that don’t comply. In short, the law bans most eggs and pork, only allowing the sale of specialty, higher-cost products such as free-range eggs.
The policy has raised prices for everyone across the country.
Because California is such a large state, few farmers can afford to stop selling there. That means millions of dollars are spent refitting each farm to sell “California-compliant” eggs and pork. These massive costs get passed on to shoppers across the country in the form of higher prices.
Since the law went into effect in 2022, pork prices have increased by 20 percent and egg prices in California almost tripled. The cost of eggs went over $10 per dozen in February. These price spikes are hitting lower-income Americans the hardest.
Prop 12: Backed by
Radical Anti-Meat Activists
Anti-meat groups spent $13 million dollars to pass Prop 12. They want to drive up your costs for eggs and meat because they don’t want people to eat animal products.
The Humane League, an organization with the goal of making the entire world vegan.
The Center for Biological Diversity, whose founder has described the group’s agenda as “bringing industrial civilization to its knees.”
Mercy for Animals, which is a vegan activist group whose leaders describe themselves as “abolitionists” in regards to eating meat and raising livestock.
Animal Outlook, which describes its agenda by saying “We unequivocally want to remove animals from the system.”
Humane World for Animals, whose current CEO is a former employee of the anti-meat group PETA. Humane World for Animals does not run a single pet shelter and gives less than one percent of its budget to local pet shelters via financial grants.
Bipartisan Opposition to Prop 12
Republicans and Democrats Express Concern for Farmers and Consumer Prices
“I will use all authority under the Constitution and U.S. law to stop efforts by California — or other states — that hurt American farmers in other states.”
President Donald Trump
“U.S. producers simply cannot operate in a system where one state can dictate production standards for the entire country,”
Congressman Glenn Thompson, Chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture
“[Prop 12 has] thrown a giant wrench into the workings of the interstate market in pork.”
The Biden Administration
“Proposition 12, which established minimum space requirements for egg-laying hens, increasing production costs and contributing to the Golden State’s average price of $9.68 a dozen.”
Brooke Rollins, US Secretary of Agriculture
“California’s Proposition 12 has required many of our pork producers to spend millions of dollars retrofitting their barns, while costing California consumers nearly $300 million annually.”
Senator John Boozman, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture
“If we don’t take this issue seriously, we’re going to have chaos in the marketplace.”
Tom Vilsack, Former US Secretary of Agriculture under Biden
Take Action Now to Reduce Food Prices
Congress is considering a fix to protect the country from California’s overreach and lower food prices. Contact your congressman below and tell them to pass the food price fix!