States Try New Strategy Against California’s Proposition 12

(Des Moines, IA) — States representing more than half of the country’s pork production are trying a new strategy to combat a California law. Eleven Republican governors–including Iowa’s Kim Reynolds–want Congress to reintroduce a bill upholding the Commerce Clause of the Constitution. The governors maintain that would prevent states from impeding interstate agricultural trade. The action is in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling in favor of California’s Proposition 12, which mandates certain animal welfare guidelines.