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US supports farm group lawsuit challenging Calif. animal cruelty law

10/07/20 6:15 AM By Steve Davies
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The United States is backing the National Pork Producers Council and American Farm Bureau Federation in a lawsuit seeking to invalidate California’s Proposition 12, which would ban the sale of pork from hogs raised without minimum square-feet requirements.
KEYWORDS 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals American Farm Bureau Federation animal confinement animal cruelty california Humane Society of the United States National Cattlemen's Beef Association National Pork Producers Council proposition 12
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