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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, December 26, 2024
In this opinion piece, Will Coggin of the Center for Consumer Freedom argues that laws like California Proposition 12 and Massachusetts Question 3 are hurting consumers while taking critical production decisions away from farmers.
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.
