California Animal-Slaughter Law Struck Down; Activists Pin Hopes On Federal Bill
January 25th, 2012
Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has struck down a California law against slaughtering pigs and other animals unable to walk, activists are pressing forward with efforts to get a tough federal measure passed.
The 2008 state law had made it illegal for slaughterhouses in California to “receive a non-ambulatory animal.” Any animal that could not stand on its own was to be returned to the farm or “humanely euthanized.”
But the court’s 9-0 decision Monday held that since Congress had already adopted its Federal Meat Inspection Act, California was not free to enforce differing rules or standards. Justice Elena Kaganwrote that “the California law runs smack into” the federal regulations…
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