The National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) and American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) have filed a legal challenge to California’s Proposition 12, which imposes animal housing standards.
The state’s law would force hog farmers who want to sell pork to the state that makes up around 15% of the US pork market to switch to alternative housing systems.
The new rules slated to take effect Jan. 1, 2022 would prohibit the sale of pork not produced via California’s “highly prescriptive standards” under which only 1% of US pork production would qualify, according to a press release from NPPC and AFBF.
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