Lewis Bollard

Because domestic farmers, local farmers are going to be very opposed to any law if they realize they're just going to get undercut by, how to say, a competition.

Rightly so.

And so I think this is a chance to also change that political dynamic so they can actually support the law, knowing that they are not at a relative disadvantage.

An upcoming bill, right?

This is right.

So the pork industry, unfortunately, has looked at these laws in California and Massachusetts and wants to do everything it can to undermine them.

I mean, it knows this is the only way it can be effectively regulated, given it has an absolute hold on the legislature in Iowa and North Carolina, which are the main states for pork production.

It knows that it needs to stop any other state from setting production standards or sales standards.

And so it first went to the Supreme Court.

It first said, this is unconstitutional.

The states can't do this.

And the Supreme Court disagreed.

We won at the Supreme Court.

And so now it has gone to Congress.

And it's saying to Congress, you need to wipe out these state laws.

You need to stop them from doing this.

And the unfortunate thing is the Senate and the House are both on track to do that.

So in the upcoming Farm Bill, there is language that would ban states from passing laws that

on the sales standard, on animal welfare sales standards on goods.

And right now, the default path is that that will pass as part of the farm bill in the next few months.