The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear the pork industry’s challenge to a California animal welfare law that would forbid confining breeding pigs in narrow metal cages for most of their lives.
California produces less than 1% of the pork sold in the state, the producers told the court, but “Prop. 12 will transform the pork industry nationwide.” “California has no legitimate interest in the housing conditions of out-of-state animals,” Solicitor Gen. Elizabeth B. Prelogar said. “States may not otherwise regulate out-of-state entities by banning products that pose no threat to public health or safety based on philosophical objections to out-of-state production methods or public policies that have no impact in the regulating state.”It “only restricts the products that businesses choose to sell within California’s borders,” they said.
More people need to take their heads out of the sand and truly understand where their “meals” come from… including all the torture and misery that they allow so they can save a few bucks
This is tragic
These poor animals have an intelligence at least equal to dogs. They are sentient beings; we should not make them experience hell on earth. The pork industry has bought out the GQP.
So disgusting