Pork producers and a Chinese-controlled, U.S.-based pork production behemoth appeal to Congress to overturn our elections and to keep pigs in cages in the homeland
Creating a Cage-free Future
State Senate and Assembly, by nearly unanimous margins, sent anti-confinement measure to Governor Murphy for his signature Washington, D.C. – Today Animal Wellness Action, the Animal Wellness Foundation, and the Center for a Humane Economy applauded state lawmakers in New Jersey for passing a measure to ban gestation crates by an overwhelming vote of 35 to … Read more
Pork Industry Leaders and Political Allies Were Wrong to Say Prop 12 Was Unconstitutional. Now Their Policy Prescription Is Wrong for America Washington, D.C. –Animal Wellness Action and the Center for a Humane Economy are calling on Congress to reject the EATS Act, a sweeping bill that would nullify more than 1,000 state laws that … Read more
No excuses for delay as U.S. Supreme Court rules Prop 12 is proper exercise of state authority Washington, D.C. — With the U.S. Supreme Court rejecting the overreaching arguments of factory-farming interests in NPPC v. Ross last week, Animal Wellness Action and the Center for a Humane Economy wrote to California’s Food and Agriculture Secretary … Read more
Justices determine states can halt sale of animal products derived from extreme animal confinement Washington, D.C. — Animal Wellness Action and the Center for a Humane Economy expressed unbridled enthusiasm for a U.S. Supreme Court decision specifically upholding California’s Proposition 12, but which has much broader implications for the rights of states to promote humane … Read more
Voter-approved anti-gestation crate policies on hold as SCOTUS decision looms on authority of states to restrict pork sales that meet humane and food-safety standards Washington, D.C. – Animal welfare groups and farmers applauded the introduction of the Pigs in Gestation Stalls (PIGS) Act, H.R. 2939, to ban the extreme confinement of mother pigs in gestation crates. That bill … Read more
Four years ago, 12,051,139 Californians cast ballots on Proposition 12, a measure formulated to improve the living conditions of some species of farm animals. In a landslide vote.
Center, Animal Wellness Action, and Agriculture Veterinarians Submit Briefs Eviscerating Pork Industry Claims Give Big Pork its due. It has chutzpah. The National Pork Producers Council and its agribusiness allies have lost every anti-gestation crate ballot measure that qualified for statewide consideration in the 21st century. They first lost in Florida in 2002, then in Arizona … Read more
Justices provided with compelling testimony about mistruths and exaggerations Washington, D.C. — The pork industry today can meet California’s humane treatment standards with existing sow housing systems, according to pleadings filed with the U.S. Supreme Court by two leading agricultural veterinarians and a set of organizations led by the Center for a Humane Economy and Animal Wellness Action. The challenge by … Read more
The United States Supreme Court, in a case captioned National Pork Producers Council v. Ross, is poised to weigh in on the constitutionality of Proposition 12, a voter-backed California state law that bans the in-state sale of pork from cruelly confined pigs, regardless of where the animals are raised. The measure, which also provides more … Read more