Biden sides with pork industry in fight over California law setting standards for animal cages

The Biden administration has asked the Supreme Court to reinstate pork producers' lawsuit against a voter-approved California law that set minimum standards for cages used to hold breeding pigs, egg-laying hens and veal calves. The companies have made a plausible case that the 2018 initiative, Proposition 12, interferes with interstate commerce and does not benefit either Californians or the animals they seek to protect, the Justice Department lawyers said in a filing Friday.
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