HSUS wants you to quit raising pigs
California ballot initiative is not about banning gestation stalls. It is a much bigger agenda.
September 5, 2017
365,880 signatures are all the Humane Society of the United States needs to ask California voters to dictate how America’s pig farmers raise their pigs. Yes, if all the signatures are collected in 180 days, then California could place on the ballot a measure to ban all pork sold in the state produced from farms that use gestation stalls.
Taking Proposition 2 — passed in 2008 — to a whole another level, the proposal basically seeks the ban on out-of-state eggs, pork and veal raised in housing — no cages, gestation stalls or crates. Here is how the proposal reads.
• Establish that eggs produced and sold in California must come from cage-free birds, requiring that within one year of enactment, eggs sold statewide would have to come from birds given one square foot of space each — often regarded as a cage-free standard. It would subsequently explicitly require that by Dec. 31, 2021, all birds must live in cage-free systems.
• Require that pork sold in California come from farms that don’t lock pigs in gestation crates by Dec. 31, 2021.