[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 125 (Thursday, July 20, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H3863]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                     PORK PRODUCTION IN CALIFORNIA

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, it used to be California was the land of 
really good ideas and innovation, but the last 30 or so years it has 
been a place where a lot of really bad ideas come from and impact the 
rest of the country.
  This morning I am talking about pork production in this country and 
California deciding that it should dictate to the rest of the country 
how it is done. There is not even that much pork produced in my home 
State, yet they want to dictate how it works.
  A proposition passed that says you cannot use gestation crates for 
pork production. Gestation crates help piglets to not be squashed by 
their mother, but it has been interpreted to be something completely 
different.
  We need H.R. 4417, the EATS Act, in order to have pork production in 
this country that isn't dictated by some crazies at Berkeley in 
California that say we can't have you produce like that.
  We have already went through this with eggs. What this will produce 
is shortages of eggs, shortages of pork, higher prices, and even 
possibly lead to the importation of it because one State trying to 
dictate and reach across State lines to all of the others with its 
tentacles of its crazy ideas on how things should be done business-
wise.
  What will stop them from banning oil and gas being used to produce 
things in other States? It will keep going and going until we stop it.

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