Prop 12 is coming, but at what cost?

One of the most common phrases heard at the 2023 edition of the World Pork Expo, without any doubt, was Proposition 12 – the ballot initiative in California mandating how sows will have to be housed by producers who want to sell whole pork in California. What do the changes mean in practice for America’s sows? Asked if this regulation will be catastrophic for the US pork industry, Michael Formica, US National Pork Producers Council chief legal strategist, replied: “Well, it’s catastro