As political polarization grows, states are more and more in search of to manage past their borders. On Tuesday the Supreme Court docket will contemplate the place to attract the road in a problem (Nationwide Pork Producers Council v. Ross) to California farm-animal rules that has far-reaching implications.
California voters in 2018 accredited a poll initiative that established minimal confinement requirements for cattle bought as meat within the state. The regulation successfully requires that grownup feminine pigs be housed in massive group pens though almost all hog farmers hold them in particular person pens, partially to forestall illness from spreading.