California’s slaughter-house rules adopted for humanely processing pigs to be sold in the state are preempted by federal law and are unconstitutional, a pork processor says in a federal complaint.
The Federal Meat Inspection Act established a comprehensive plan, regulating how pigs are processed and slaughtered, and California’s humane-pork law and its implementing regulations are inconsistent with that scheme, Triumph Foods LLC says in a complaint filed Tuesday in the US District Court for the Central District of California.
The complaint comes after the US Supreme Court in May 2023 upheld the pork law, rejecting a challenge against a commerce ...