Individuals are bringing residence much less bacon as pork costs have jumped 8.5% over the past 12 months. Now animal-rights activists in Massachusetts are piling on pricey farm rules that might inflate pork costs and trigger shortages throughout the Northeast.
Bay State voters in 2016 authorized a referendum that will prohibit the sale of merchandise from farms that confine “any breeding pig [sow], calf raised for veal, or egg-laying hen in a approach that forestalls the animal from mendacity down, standing up, totally extending its limbs, or turning round freely.” Hog farmers can be most affected since almost all are housed in particular person pens.
