Supreme Court Pork Case Could Provide Roadmap for Moral Warfare

The Supreme Court will consider how California regulates living conditions for pigs raised for meat in a case with implications for the $26 billion US pork industry as well as state efforts to address everything from abortion to climate change.

At issue in National Pork Producers Council v. Ross to be argued on Tuesday is a 2018 proposition approved by California voters which prohibits the sale of pork in the state if it was produced using inhumane breeding methods.

Proponents of the law say it’s simply meant to set standards for the production of pork products sold ...