California running out of bacon? New law limits pork supply, leads to price increases, restaurant, grocers as - PennLive
If you do a search across the internet for “No bacon in California,” you will find stories dating back at least a year.
And if you search for the most recent stories, you’ll discover those chickens — or piggies — might be coming home to roost. Well, in the case of piggies, they may not be coming home, at least not to California, at all. Because, yes, that appears to be a real thing. They are running out of bacon in California — at least according to an opinion piece penned by Jot Condie, president and CEO of the California Restaurant Association and Ronald Fong, president and CEO of the California Grocers Association in The Sacramento Bee — and suppliers are struggling to figure out how they will be able to provide those delicious cuts of meat under a new state law that began on Jan. 1 there.
Condie and Fong claim the issues stem from California’s Proposition 12, “which added new requirements for how pork that is consumed in California is raised, even if it’s raised out of state.”
And, according to them, “recent fears of pork shortages and massive price increases,” are part of the reason why the state’s Grocers Association, Restaurant Association, Retailers Association and Hispanic Chambers of Commerce joined together in a lawsuit “requesting a delay in the implementation,” of the law.
They said that California has yet to finalize “the rules and regulations all industry stakeholders need to come into compliance and to demonstrate that all pork they buy or sell was raided under new requirements.” They also claimed that 98-percent of the pork served in California comes from out of state, and that the state’s “pork suppliers have no way of proving on their own that pork was raised in compliance with Prop 12.”
And from there … well, the whole thing reads like a gigantic mess — at least from their point of view — that could take BLTs off of the menu across the state because California just doesn’t seem to have itself together on this one, yet. Because, according to them, those pork suppliers will have to “rely on a state approved-certification system,” when it comes to those out of state bacon shipments. But that’s a big problem because, they said, that certification system is “still two years away from being in place.” And, without that, they contend those suppliers have no way of knowing how they should go about actually supplying pork this year.
So, unless they get it figured out, breakfast might just be a little less delicious in the “Golden State” for a while.
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source: https://www.pennlive.com/news/2022/01/california-running-out-of-bacon-new-law-limits-pork-supply-leads-to-price-increases-restaurant-grocers-associations-say.html
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