Supreme Court considers pork industry challenge to California animal welfare law

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A California animal welfare measure that bans the sale of pork when breeding pigs are housed in confined spaces that prevent them from moving freely will go under the microscope at the Supreme Court.

Californians approved Proposition 12 in 2018 with nearly 63% of the vote, a margin of more than 3 million votes. The state’s lawyers

The challengers say the measure impermissibly interferes with interstate commerce in part because almost all of the pork sold in California is produced out of state. The law also imposes an excessive burden on out-of-state entities without having a clear in-state benefit, they argue. As a result, they say, the law has an unlawfully broad extraterritorial effect.

“What the pork producers are asking for is quite unprecedented,” said Brian Frazelle, a lawyer with the Constitutional Accountability Center, a liberal legal group that filed a brief supporting the state.Michael Formica, chief legal strategist for the pork producers group, downplayed the impact a ruling against California could have, saying it would not prevent states from enacting environmental laws that protect the health of their people.

 

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Best vote I ever cast: not to pay people to torture animals.

I challange you to show picture from inside one of the pig factory farms showing the pigs in these crates instead of outside as you did, which is not accurate reporting

glad to see NBC covering this case. People are very interested as it is about animal cruelty and our food system

We know the Supreme Court loves government pork

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They need to fix this. I like my pork nice and tender.

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