Not purly performative as Berkeley did actually have a CAFO. It ended up closing a few months before the ballot intative, and this ensures it won’t be starting up again nor anything like it

It also sets legal precedent for other places to do the same. The more localities that do this, the harder things become for the meat industry

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    Article is not very clear about the obvious weakness: this is a ban on factory farms themselves. Their products will continue coming across the nearest municipal boundaries and filling Berkeley’s supermarket shelves.

    Quite easy to imagine a USA where all the liberal cities “ban factory farming” but everyone, including liberals in those cities, continues to eat factory-farmed meat.

    Still, the symbolism is positive.