Iowa AG on How California Is Trying to Use Its ‘Market Power to Change How We Farm'

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🗓️ 18 August 2023

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Iowa is calling on Congress to prevent California from overregulating the agricultural sector. "California trying to use their market power to change how we farm, [and] I think that violates the Constitution," Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird says. California's Proposition 12 regulations, implemented in 2022, "require veal calves, breeding pigs, and egg-laying hens to be housed in systems that comply with specific standards for freedom of movement, cage-free design, and specified minimum floor space," according to the California state government. The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a challenge to Proposition 12 in May, leaving the law in place. Now, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds and 10 other GOP governors have sent a letter to Congress asking lawmakers to protect the "nation's agricultural interests from states that are working to put onerous and unfounded regulations on livestock producers that will ultimately increase food costs and hurt farming operations." Bird says Iowa will continue to "stand up for not just farmer's ability to farm, but anybody that wants to do business and not be told what to do by a big, liberal state like California." Bird joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to discuss the fight against Proposition 12. She also discusses the court battle over Iowa's fetal heartbeat law that would protect babies in the womb starting at about six weeks of pregnancy. Enjoy the show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Civil Podcast for Friday, August 18th, I'm Virginia Allen.
0:11.0	The Daily Civil Team is back from the Iowa State Fair and I was so pleased while I was
0:16.2	there to meet with so many great people and just talk with Americans about what are the
0:19.7	issues that are on their minds, what are they concerned about, especially as we're looking
0:23.6	towards a presidential election next year.
0:26.2	And I also had the chance while I was in Iowa to grab a conversation with Senator
0:31.0	Joni Ernst and Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird.
0:34.2	I hope you all caught that conversation with Senator Ernst yesterday.
0:38.1	If you didn't be sure to check it out, we discussed the coming election and how folks at
0:42.3	the Iowa State Fair received so many of the presidential candidates who visited the
0:47.5	fair to talk to voters.
0:49.3	But today I'm so glad to be bringing you my conversation with Attorney General Bird.
0:55.1	You know Iowa is a state that is really standing for life in some pretty profound ways.
0:59.6	Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds recently signed a heartbeat bill to protect the Umborn beginning
1:05.4	around six weeks.
1:07.3	There is a battle in the courts right now over that bill and so I talk with the Attorney
1:12.0	General a little bit about that where that fight stands.
1:15.2	And there's another fight that Iowa is engaging in to protect the rights of Americans and
1:20.1	specifically farmers.
1:22.2	So while we were at the fair, there's a lot of cows, there's a lot of pigs because
1:27.1	Iowa is a major state, it's a major cattle state, it's a major beef state.
1:33.4	And there's something in California called Proposition 12 and that proposition puts additional
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