Supreme Court Upholds California’s Prop 12, Protects Rights of States to Set Humane Treatment, Food Safety Rules
“The pork industry has for decades blocked any rules at the federal level to promote the humane treatment of farm animals and this was their attempt to gut state rules, too.
- “The pork industry has for decades blocked any rules at the federal level to promote the humane treatment of farm animals and this was their attempt to gut state rules, too.
- State authorities in Massachusetts had put a hold on implementation of a very similar law there pending the Supreme Court’s ruling on the matter.
- “The Court recognized that the doomsday forecasting of extraterritorial effects for the pig industry was a contrivance and a charade,” added Pacelle.
- The Center for a Humane Economy is a non-profit organization that focuses on influencing the conduct of corporations to forge a humane economic order.