California Making Life Miserable for Illinois Pork Producers?

I realize that agriculture is a complicated issue that I don't fully understand. However, I do (sometimes) understand common sense and a report claiming that California is being allowed to make life miserable for Illinois pork producers isn't that.

I saw this report from 25 News Now which describes something unusual, but this is California we're talking about. They say that legislation called Proposition 12 became a thing in California one year ago. I looked up Proposition 12 directly from the state of California website and it says this. Try not to laugh as you read it. These are the exact words directly from the mouth of California:

"Section 1322.1(a) of 3 CCR states that 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."

Translation? Every female pig has to have 24 feet of space to themselves. That means no pork sales to California from Illinois from crowded girl pigs.

The 25 News Now story says Illinois pork producers don't always have the funds to reconfigure their farm to comply with the new California pig law. How is it possible that California is being allowed to pass laws that require adherence in Illinois? That's kind of the point of the report that Illinois pork producers want national legislation to address this issue.

I'm not an anti-California person, but I do think it's unfair for one state to be able to wreck the business of farmers/ranchers in other states. We'll see what happens as this swine issue moves forward.