According to his website, Chuck Grassley is once again railing against California’s Prop 12, a measure voters approved in 2018 by nearly a 2-to-1 margin. Grassley’s belly-aching is nothing but corporate ag hogwash. It’s time to move on, Chuck. Or as The Eagles sang in one of their hit songs, Get Over It!

By passing Prop 12, consumers were telling the factory farm industry to treat its animals a bit more humanely. It gave gestating sows a few more square feet to move around in their tightly confined crates, and also said most pork sold in California grocery stores needed to comply with this standard.

Corporate ag groups like the National Pork Producers Council and the Farm Bureau have been squealing about Prop 12 for years now. They don’t like it when consumers — and voters — tell them, in landslide numbers, to change their practices. But really, isn’t that what we — the consuming public — should be doing to rein in this out-of-control industry? I guess they don’t like democracy.

While factory farms continue expanding across Iowa and producing billions of gallons of toxic manure that too often ends up in our drinking water, Grassley is cheering them on. Maybe he and our other Republican legislators should start paying more attention to everyday voters and less attention to the corporate ag industry. I for one am looking forward to the November midterm elections.