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The US Supreme Court’s decision Thursday to uphold California’s ban of pork that does not meet its heightened animal welfare standards simultaneously is being hailed as a “watershed moment” by animal rights activists and condemned by producers and their political advocates as a death knell for small farms that will drive up already high prices.
The Supreme Court has backed a California animal cruelty law that requires more space for breeding pigs. The pork industry says that'll mean higher costs nationwide for pork chops and
The Biden administration had urged the justices to side with pork producers.
The Supreme Court backed a California animal cruelty law that requires more space for breeding pigs, a ruling the pork industry says will lead to higher costs nationwide for pork
The pork industry has said the law will force expensive, industry-wide changes even though a majority of the farms where pigs are raised are not in the nation's most populous state.