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Current cages marry the need for high food production with the territorial, hierarchical, and often violent nature of gestating sows, pork producers must significantly increase the size of facilities, increasing surface footprint due to Prop 12 increase space requirements
The Supreme Court’s decision to allow California’s animal housing law to remain in place caused a furor in the pork industry and among farm-state lawmakers, who vowed to introduce legislation to overturn the ruling. But its more immediate impact could be felt in the approximately half of states that allow voters to craft law through ballot initiatives.
Apples hold top spot for total fruit available for consumption in 2021, and Supreme Court reject challenge to California's Prop 12.
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 upheld California’s Prop. 12, which bans sales in the state of pork from breeding pigs held in small cages.