The ASPCA Wants Your Bacon to Cost $29 Per Pound
Most people know the ASPCA because of its sad commercial featuring Sarah MacLachlan and homeless cats and dogs. Far fewer people are aware the ASPCA has recently gotten involved in radical, anti-meat lobbying in Washington, DC.
The ASPCA has been fighting against Congressional efforts to lower food prices by fixing a California ballot measure known as Prop 12.
Prop 12, bans the sale of regular pork and egg products in California stores. The way the law is written, however, imposes mandates on farmers in all 50 states, raising costs for not just California consumers, but Americans across the country.
Prop 12 is opposed by many farmers as well as both the Biden and Trump administrations. But the ASPCA found a handful of farmers to serve as window dressing for the ASPCA’s campaign against fixing Prop 12.
So what exactly is the “ASPCA approved” meat? The farmers cited by the ASPCA sell bacon that goes for $29 per pound, ribeyes steaks sold at an eye-watering $35 each, and $30 pork tenderloins.
That’s not just “Whole Foods-level” expensive–those prices might give Jeff Bezos pause.
Now, anyone with a brain can see what’s going on here.
The ASPCA is part of a lobbying coalition with vegan animal liberation groups. But the ASPCA and its allies know they can’t ban meat entirely. So they engage in a strategy of death-by-a-thousand-cuts. They lobby for policies (such as Prop 12) that would raise the price of this pork chop or that chicken breast, or ban common, veterinarian-approved forms of animal husbandry.
The end result? You can technically still eat meat, but only if you can afford to pay through the nose. What’s sad is that low-income American families are hit hardest by these elitist mandates.
Perhaps there are a few people who could afford to pay that much for a pack of bacon, such as ASPCA CEO “Million-Dollar” Matt Bershadker (who receives $1.2 million in yearly compensation), but the rest of us would be stuck with a grocery cart full of veggieburgers and soylent.
