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A panel of three judges in the United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit struck down an attempt by meat industry groups namely National Pork Producers Council and the American Farm Bureau Federation to overturn animal-welfare law Proposition 12. Passed in 2018 by a majority 68 percent vote, Proposition 12 mandates minimum space requirements for farmed animals and prohibits the sale of products in California that are the product of extreme confinement.
To help defend Proposition 12, animal-rights groups the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), Animal Equality, Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF), Animal Outlook, Compassion in World Farming USA, Farm Sanctuary, and the Humane League, intervened in the lawsuit on the side of the State of California. “Californians and animals are victorious yet again as the appeals court rebuffed the meat industry’s attack on the state’s landmark farmed animal anti-confinement law,” ALDF Executive Director Stephen Wells