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Wounded Bear

(64,358 posts)
19. But they don't have that choice...
Fri Mar 7, 2014, 02:44 PM
Mar 2014

if the eggs are not properly labeled for sale in California. That would be Alabama forcing California to accept something they find unacceptable.

Fuck Alabama. If they'd pay the chickens union scale, this wouldn't be an issue. (Sorry, couldn't resist )

This goes right back to the corporate model. This is the "let them sell insurance across state lines" of food production. It has nothing to do with the state lines. They can already do that. It has to do with corporate entities being able to produce in the lowest cost place and sell to places with stricter regulation without penalty. It goes back to profit at the public's expense.

As they say, follow the money.

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Let them complain Stargazer09 Mar 2014 #1
Funny, I thought the free market would decide n2doc Mar 2014 #2
I don't think that's exactly right JJChambers Mar 2014 #5
Well, Californians can complain n2doc Mar 2014 #8
Yes Alabama can complain all they want JJChambers Mar 2014 #9
The people in California voted...you can quibble about the phucking free market... joeybee12 Mar 2014 #12
That's not free market though JJChambers Mar 2014 #14
But they don't have that choice... Wounded Bear Mar 2014 #19
Or, in this case, the chicken's expense (nt) JJChambers Mar 2014 #20
Yes, they do still have the option to vote with their dollars jeff47 Mar 2014 #16
It is a free country, don't ship to California. Downwinder Mar 2014 #3
Yep. That's what free market principles say. KeepItReal Mar 2014 #4
California might notice a lack of eggs and change the law. Downwinder Mar 2014 #6
No way we have many egg producers upaloopa Mar 2014 #10
The law was passed by initiative. It's not going anywhere. bemildred Mar 2014 #11
Why do Alabama businessmen get to decide what California's regulations are? (nt) jeff47 Mar 2014 #17
Honestly, won't egg productions soon be the lowest standard among TPP nations? HereSince1628 Mar 2014 #7
I enjoy when the "good guy" wins PowerToThePeople Mar 2014 #13
I hope you raise your own chickens and harvest your own eggs JJChambers Mar 2014 #15
My egg guy at the farmers' market in downtown San Francisco... displacedtexan Mar 2014 #21
The state of California has every right... Spider Jerusalem Mar 2014 #18
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