Valery2007 | Dreamstime.com
A federal judge has ruled the Massachusetts’ animal welfare law, known as Question 3, is not pre-empted by the Federal Meat Inspection Act and allowed the law to stand in a defeat for pork producers.
The ruling on July 22 by Judge William Young of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts came after a ruling in February in which he ordered a slaughterhouse exemption be severed from the Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act and allowed the legal challenge brought by pork processor Triumph Foods and several pork producers to continue.
