Supreme Court agrees to hear pork producers’ challenge to California animal anti-cruelty law

The court’s action casts some doubt on the future of the state measure, which has forced major changes in the egg and veal industries.

Nearly 63% of California voters approved Prop. 12 in 2018 to “prevent animal cruelty by phasing out extreme methods of farm animal confinement, which also threaten the health and safety of California consumers and increase the risk of food-borne illness.”

Several large meatpacking companies, including Hormel, announced they would comply with California’s law, but the National Pork Producers Council and the American Farm Bureau Federation went to court arguing the state was violating the Constitution’s protection for the free flow of interstate commerce.

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