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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
SCOTUS upheld Proposition 12, finding the law is not an unconstitutional violation of the Court’s dormant Commerce Clause precedents, despite the Biden administration’s concerns that the decision would substantially disrupt the nation’s pork market.
Warning: This story contains content that may distress some readers. A pig abattoir has ceased operations amid a formal investigation into "serious and disturbing allegations" of mistreatment of animals, including one pig having its testicles torn off by machinery.
National Pork Producers Council Focusing on Labor and Trade
Lori Steverer, National Pork Producers Council President-Elect