A.G. Gancarski
In Iowa, Ron DeSantis pledged his fealty to animal flesh, and promised to stop environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) dead in its tracks before it caused a “food crisis.”
“You don’t have to worry about me with any beef or any meat,” DeSantis said. “We need meat. I mean, like I couldn’t live, I couldn’t go a week without it.”
DeSantis has said before that he was “not going to let anyone take away your meat” and told supporters he “couldn’t subsist if (he) didn’t have the good meat,” making Thursday’s message consistent with past remarks.
The Governor made the comments in response to a question from an Iowa farmer who objected to California’s standards for the treatment of hogs, which DeSantis framed as an example of the Left’s preferred “radical changes on how folks do their job in all sectors of agriculture and it will create a food crisis in this country if they do it.”
DeSantis addressed California’s Proposition 12, a law mandating sufficient room for breeding pigs, which he claimed Californians passed because they were too ignorant to read and comprehend what the ballot measure actually meant.
“So California does a ballot initiative called Prop 12. And it was something about how basically, you know, how you treat the hogs. And I mean, like the average person voting on that probably has no connection to any of this stuff and, but you know, they word it in a way to try to get a majority so they do it,” he said Thursday.
The California law holds “no person shall knowingly engage in a commercial sale within the state of whole pork meat for human food if the whole pork meat is the product of a breeding pig, or the product of the immediate offspring of a breeding pig, that was confined at any time during the production cycle for said product in an enclosure that fails to comply with all of the standards set forth in Chapter 10, Article 3, regarding Breeding Pigs.”
This includes pig meat brought in from out of state, meaning California markets would be closed to flesh from slaughtered pigs treated worse than state law requires.
California statute dictates that the “enclosure shall allow the breeding pig to lie down, stand up, fully extend limbs, and turn around freely,” with “a minimum of 24 square feet of usable floor space per breeding pig.” But that’s a bridge too far for the purveyors of porcine flesh.
The National Pork Producers Council has denounced the standards as “arbitrary” and “unconstitutional,” and DeSantis’ position accords with that industry group.
Ironically given the Governor’s take, more than two decades ago Florida passed a constitutional amendment stipulating that “no person shall confine a pig during pregnancy in a cage, crate or other enclosure, or tether a pregnant pig, on a farm so that the pig is prevented from turning around freely, except for veterinary purposes and during the pre-birthing period.”
12 comments
The Dude
January 11, 2024 at 5:23 pm
It won’t be long until the regular nuts on this site take their shot at DeSantis. Gancarski continues to feed his left wing lunatics.
Radical Right are Primitive and Unhinged
January 11, 2024 at 5:54 pm
I dont think hes feeding anyone – hes pointing out how self centered desantis is… and how the radical right doesnt care about other living beings. They are a very ungodly group and extremely primitive. They enjoy hurting others and animals. In some countries they serve dog and cat… should the US allow that to happen as well?
Dont Say FLA
January 11, 2024 at 7:49 pm
The DeSantis Campaign could certainly do with a cash injection right about now. A shot of money, if you will. A money shot is just what that Kermit the Frog mouth needs.
WhatNow
January 11, 2024 at 9:23 pm
Money will not help that turkey, his campaign is dead in the water and still sinking. Time for DeSantis to make like Christy, past time even.
Dont Say FLA
January 12, 2024 at 6:35 pm
Agreed!
Money shots. They are not money, but they are frequently on somebody’s face.
WhatNow
January 11, 2024 at 9:20 pm
I STRONGLY encourage *you* to eat even more meat than you’d like to! The more the better, right?
Tom
January 11, 2024 at 6:23 pm
Most of what comes out of Desantis’ mouth these days is just plain nonsense that reeks of desperation – pointing out the obvious is like shooting fish in a barrel. It’s not even fun anymore. Does anybody, anywhere thing esg is a threat to eating meat? Seriously? That’s all he has?
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Dont Say FLA
January 11, 2024 at 7:48 pm
Casey, here’s your “out.” Now’s your chance.
After all that eating on the road, Rhonda needs a two week toxin purging vegan diet.
That’s right. Not even cheese.
WhatNow
January 11, 2024 at 9:18 pm
I *STRONGLY* encourage DeSantis to eat as much red meat as he’d like, even more than that. Certainly would be great for the rest of us.
Dr. Franklin Waters
January 12, 2024 at 2:08 pm
The more processed the better!
Dr. Franklin Waters
January 12, 2024 at 2:08 pm
More baseless scaremongering. Yawn.
Get some better material, clown.
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