California agrees to postpone Prop. 12 pork law — after the Supreme Court OKd it

A month after the Supreme Court upheld a voter-approved California law that bans the sale of pork produced anywhere from breeding pigs held in small cages, the state has agreed to delay enforcement until next year.Proposition 12 was approved by more than 62% of the state’s voters in 2018, but it has been on hold during legal challenges by the pork industry, which contended it would interfere with interstate commerce while driving up prices nationwide. On May 11, the court ruled 5-4 that California was entitled to protect its residents from practices it considers inhumane, and would not be unduly disrupting nationwide commerce. Read more