Posted on 07/31/2021 9:29:17 AM PDT by devane617
Thanks to a reworked menu and long hours, Jeannie Kim managed to keep her San Francisco restaurant alive during the coronavirus pandemic.
That makes it all the more frustrating that she fears her breakfast-focused diner could be ruined within months by new rules that could make one of her top menu items — bacon — hard to get in California.
“Our number one seller is bacon, eggs and hash browns,” said Kim, who for 15 years has run SAMS American Eatery on the city’s busy Market Street. “It could be devastating for us.”
At the beginning of next year, California will begin enforcing an animal welfare proposition approved overwhelmingly by voters in 2018 that requires more space for breeding pigs, egg-laying chickens and veal calves. National veal and egg producers are optimistic they can meet the new standards, but only 4% of hog operations now comply with the new rules. Unless the courts intervene or the state temporarily allows non-compliant meat to be sold in the state, California will lose almost all of its pork supply, much of which comes from Iowa, and pork producers will face higher costs to regain a key market.
I’ve already eaten more BLTs this season that the past 3 years combined.
Yeah, foie gras but a lot of restaurants also sautee the whole liver without any processing. Tasty.
Years ago wife and I were just meandering around Paris and we stumbled upon what we would call a “farmers market”. We ate so well. Fresh bread, cheese, meats, veggies, fruits. Came across a foie gras vendor, he gave us some free samples and glasses of wine. It was delicious and we bought a case of canned foie gras off him to bring back. 100% goose liver, not mixed with other meats like some other foie gras can be.
Thanks for the link.
They've been doing it to cars (emissions!) for decades and get away with it. Why should this turn out differently?
Good! The stupidity never stops.
Do they understand where veal comes from and how it is “developed”?
Sad truth
When sarcasm is truth
OMG!!! and it is only july
“Between now and the first of the year I will put 5 or so 1 lb packages on bacon in my freezer.”
Yep, bacon will keep well if frozen. We prepped at the beginning of the virus and had 30 lbs. in a chest freezer. Will probably do it again if I lived there.
I’m out of bread but I saw my neighbor leaving out of here and called her to pick me up a loaf when she goes to the grocery. I’m swapping for a sack of tomatoes. Win/Win!
I know what you mean. My house mate in Sunnyvale sometimes helped out his brother at his art gallery in San Francisco. One evening in 1993, as he was closing up, an old guy who looked homeless came by and asked to look around. Long, unwashed hair and beard, worn and patched clothes, a certain 'air' about him.
After looking around for a while, he thanked my friend and left. He came back the next day with several million dollars in cash, carried in suitcases by his "peeps". He said that he would take that wall, that wall and that wall.
The old bum turned out to be Jerry Garcia.
California has ignored the commerce clause on everything from cars to guns. Why would pork be any different? I am not saying it is right, just that the courts have allowed California to get away with it for 30 years. I don’t expect the courts to stop California now.
Pigs and humans are closely related and California has millions of Illegals so turn a few of them into Bacon
To me, the difference here is that there is absolutely nothing about the item itself that harms California. This isn't an argument about chemicals inside the bacon, etc.. There is absolutely no difference between California bacon and imported bacon except the manner in which the pigs are raised, which has no measureable impact on the bacon itself.
What California is really attempting to do is regulate how pigs are raised in other states. It would be as if California said that no products could be sold in the state unless the labor involved was all paid at the tate of California's minimum wage. And that whatever California required its own employers to provide in terms of family leave, health care, etc., must also be provided by those out of state manufacturers to their employees in other states.
And I'm not so sure that would pass constitutional muster.
So, when is it time to stock up?
(If you have to ask, it’s too late?)
I heard cockroaches are much desired by tree huggers.
I suggest they also pass a law that all non animal products have to be produced with solar powered tractors and other equipment.
Then let them f&*’ing starve.
Maybe the casinos will just bring the best chefs there that want to be able to use those products and just tell the rest to kiss off.
He has his woke glasses on.
This is how they identify each other.
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