Source: Jacqui Fatka, FARM PROGRESS, 6/9/21


The North American Meat Institute says the State of California’s Proposition 12 provides no benefit to consumers and increases breeding sow mortality, according to the state’s own proposed rule. The industry group made the remarks in a reply brief in support of its petition to the U.S. Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and in response to the defendants’ previously submitted briefs. The National Pork Producers Council, along with the American Farm Bureau Federation, is also currently in a separate litigation before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals challenging Proposition 12. Oral arguments were...

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