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
Prop 12
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
Impacts of ruling on animal welfare, states’ rights, and climate change could be devastating as a result of Biden position WASHINGTON, D.C. – Tonight, in response to the federal government’s filing of a brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down California’s Proposition 12, a voter-approved ballot measure to promote food safety and animal welfare, Wayne Pacelle, president of Animal Wellness … Read more
Today, SCOTUS granted cert in a petition advanced by agribusiness giants Los Angeles, Calif. — Today, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) granted a petition for certiorari brought by the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) and the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) in their continuing attempts to nullify a voter-approved ballot measure in California … Read more
Anti-confinement policies in place in America’s Biggest State Despite the unmistakable verdict of California voters that they want to wrap up the era of extreme confinement of farm animals, the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) and other agribusiness and food-industry players are working to bully the courts and the Congress to undermine Proposition 12 and … Read more
The Business of Animal Welfare Cage-free Future Campaign Will Walmart abide by Prop 12? The nation’s most important farm animal welfare law — Proposition 12 — is the law of the land in California on January 1, 2022. The measure approved by voters in November 2018 bans the extreme confinement of veal calves in small … Read more
Sacramento, CA — In an effort to ensure the proper implementation of California’s Proposition 12 – with key provisions taking effect in California in January that restrict the sale of pork and eggs that come from severely confined breeding sows and laying hens — key backers of the measure sued the California Department of Food and … Read more