Clearly there are powerful interests promoting at the global level a switch from animal-based food to plant-based. Ignore for now the many possible reasons for that, whether they are commercial motives (e.g. Big Ag and Chem would benefit immensely) or (perhaps!) valid "environmental" motives as well, such as fairer allocation of Earth's …
Clearly there are powerful interests promoting at the global level a switch from animal-based food to plant-based. Ignore for now the many possible reasons for that, whether they are commercial motives (e.g. Big Ag and Chem would benefit immensely) or (perhaps!) valid "environmental" motives as well, such as fairer allocation of Earth's food supply, lessened pollution, or even to reduce animal mistreatment.
Isn't it more likely that Newsom would be pandering to State-level interests? The easy suspects here are Big Ag, or in the present case, Big Egg and the poultry industry. I can't figure out the angle though, since a flu scare usually leads to the preventive slaughter of large numbers of animals as we've already seen with flu and even against Covid-19 a few times. Remember when millions of ferrets? (Mink?) were killed because either they tested positive or were feared reservoir for Covid-19? The easy “conspiracy theory” of course, is that CA will enact regs that would tend to hurt the small producers the most, all in the name of “public safety”, of course! Governments have a VERY long track record of doing just that. Big Business will often bitch and moan about those burdensome government regulations but if you look under the hood you would find that in many, certainly not all, cases, Big Business is actually quite comfortable with certain regulatory regimes because they impose much worse burdens on competitors, especially the small fry.
Clearly there are powerful interests promoting at the global level a switch from animal-based food to plant-based. Ignore for now the many possible reasons for that, whether they are commercial motives (e.g. Big Ag and Chem would benefit immensely) or (perhaps!) valid "environmental" motives as well, such as fairer allocation of Earth's food supply, lessened pollution, or even to reduce animal mistreatment.
Isn't it more likely that Newsom would be pandering to State-level interests? The easy suspects here are Big Ag, or in the present case, Big Egg and the poultry industry. I can't figure out the angle though, since a flu scare usually leads to the preventive slaughter of large numbers of animals as we've already seen with flu and even against Covid-19 a few times. Remember when millions of ferrets? (Mink?) were killed because either they tested positive or were feared reservoir for Covid-19? The easy “conspiracy theory” of course, is that CA will enact regs that would tend to hurt the small producers the most, all in the name of “public safety”, of course! Governments have a VERY long track record of doing just that. Big Business will often bitch and moan about those burdensome government regulations but if you look under the hood you would find that in many, certainly not all, cases, Big Business is actually quite comfortable with certain regulatory regimes because they impose much worse burdens on competitors, especially the small fry.