People Ex Rel. Lockyer v. Shamrock Foods Co.

Opinion

MOSK, J.

Milk and milk products constitute an important source of nutrition for the people of the State of California, supplying various essential nutrients. They also amount to a substantial economic resource, since the state’s dairy industry, which is the nation’s largest, is the state’s leading agricultural enterprise. .

The cause before us involves milk, in the form commonly called whole milk, and milk products, in the forms commonly called lowfat milk and skim milk, and the interplay of the laws of the United States and those of the State of California as they apply thereto.

We…