Federal lawmakers are seeking to curtail a far-reaching California animal welfare measure, following an unsuccessful attempt by pork and farm industry groups to legally challenge the requirements.
Animal advocates have had state-level success pushing policies to ban the use of certain confinements that severely restrict how pigs, chickens, and calves stand up and move. Attempts to contest the California animal welfare law known as Proposition 12—which applies to in-state producers and animal products sold in the state—recently failed for the second time at the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in a June 25 ruling. The rulings came ...