Hog Legislation Update

According to updated news sources, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed into law enhanced regulations for breeding pigs and calves’ confinement on July 26, 2023. The new legislation prohibits the animals’ confinement in an enclosure that does not allow them to move freely and groom themselves and limits their visual contact with others. The new legislation with start 180 days after the governor’s signing. New Jersey is the 11th state to adopt an anti-gestation crate policy.

New Jersey’s new law builds on the Supreme Court’s ruling of California’s Proposition 12, which prohibits the sale of eggs, pork and veal sourced from animals that were housed in enclosures that do not meet the state’s confinement standards.

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