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Originally Posted by Rainger99
The US Supreme Court just upheld a California law which requires that any pork sold in California has to come from pigs whose mothers were raised with at least 24 square feet of space, with the ability to lie down and turn around - even if the pork comes from another state.
This will be a nightmare for the pork industry since the vast majority of pork farmers' practices do not conform to the California law. Either they won't be able to sell pork in California, or if they do comply with the law, pork prices should increase for the rest of the country. Stock up on bacon now!
Supreme Court rejects challenge to California pork law mandating more space for pigs |
Having been born and raised in Iowa, the pork capital of the world, I have never seen hogs kept in confined spaces, except when farrowing. And that was just to protect the piglets until they were weaned and able to fend for themselves. Otherwise they were kept in large pens with plenty of room to roam. I think this is just something dreamed up by the wacko California legislature whose members' closest proximity to hog farming was buying bacon at the grocery store.