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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
USDA's efforts to tighten enforcement of the Horse Protection Act began a new chapter this week with the withdrawal of a previous rulemaking, an action it says was supported by comments on a proposed new rule that could soon take its place.
A federal judge in Iowa has turned aside hog producers’ latest attempt to block California from enforcing its animal welfare requirements on pork sold in the state.
A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel did not hint at how it will end up ruling in a case argued Wednesday over California's Proposition 12, which would require pork products sold in the state to come from sows raised with a minimum amount of square footage.
A federal appeals court has rejected an attempt by meat processors to block implementation of a California animal housing law approved by voters in 2018.
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.
Court arguments today on the sale of the “Pork: The Other White Meat” trademark centered less around the merits of the sale and more around the technicalities of how the situation should proceed.
A coalition of animal welfare groups has gathered enough signatures to place a measure on the November ballot in California that would require all egg-laying hens be cage-free by 2022.