Lobbying and litigation frustrate efforts to improve conditions for chickens, pigs and calves
Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitaskIn 2016 voters in the Bay State backed a ballot initiative to overhaul farm-animal welfare. The “Massachusetts Minimum Size Requirements for Farm Animal Containment”, also known as Question 3, banned the “cruel” confinement of chickens, pigs and calves, defined as housing that “prevents the animal from lying down, standing up, fully extending the animal’s limbs or turning around freely”.
The outlook looks bleaker for the state’s pigs. The new rules were set to ban the sale of pork products within Massachusetts from animals “confined in a cruel manner”. This would in effect ban the use of “gestation crates’‘, where pigs are unable to turn round . In December, in the same bill that amended the rules for chicken, these pork regulations were delayed until August, ostensibly to stave off potential supply shortages.
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