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California is one of 11 states that restrict or ban gestation crates for mother pigs. It’s also one of 10 that limit or bar veal crates and 11 that ban cages for egg-laying hens.
The ballot measure aimed to build upon and strengthen the requirements of a previous ballot measure, the 2008 California Proposition 2, which prohibited battery cages and gestation crates for animals in California, and required that pigs, hens, and calves be able to spread their wings or limbs and turn around. The California legislature in 2010 ...
Ohio hog farmer Joe Brandt changed his operation a few years ago to give his pigs more room and keep pregnant sows out of the narrow crates used by most farms. Brandt said he wanted to treat his ...
A 14th-century depiction of boar hunting with hounds. Boar hunting is the practice of hunting wild boar, feral pigs, warthogs, and peccaries.Boar hunting was historically a dangerous exercise due to the tusked animal's ambush tactics as well as its thick hide and dense bones rendering them difficult to kill with premodern weapons.
A group of farmers and corporations in the pork industry, led by the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) and the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF), sued the California Department of Food and Agriculture, led by Karen Ross. They asserted the proposition violates the Dormant Commerce Clause, which prohibits laws that impact interstate ...
A California ballot measure that required all pork sold in the state to meet certain welfare standards was supposed to take effect this year. California pig welfare rule delays frustrate small farmers
In 2019, NOAA proposed issuing depredation permits for the kill of more than 400 Steller sea lions and California sea lions in Oregon because they are said to be eating too many fish. [9] Depredation permits allowing bow hunting of white-tailed deer are considered a population control method in Suffolk County, New York. [10]
At the beginning of next year, California will begin enforcing an animal welfare proposition approved overwhelmingly by voters in 2018 that requires more space for breeding pigs, egg-laying ...