California Farm Animal Cruelty Law Upheld by Ninth Circuit

California’s farm animal cruelty prevention law doesn’t discriminate against out-of-state pork producers, the Ninth Circuit ruled in a loss for the Iowa Pork Producers Association.

Proposition 12, a law setting minimum space standards producers must meet in confining animals sold in California, “treats all businesses the same by prohibiting all of them from selling non-compliant pork, regardless of where they reside,” the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said in a Tuesday opinion.

The Ninth Circuit’s decision comes a year after the US Supreme Court upheld the law in a separate challenge brought by the National Pork ...