Practicing, maintaining and promoting humane handling and animal welfare not only ensures best practices, but also reassures consumers that their purchases align with their priorities.
With the implementation of legislation like Prop 12 and Massachusetts Question 3, every worker in the meat supply chain must be properly informed on all best practices for humane handling of livestock and poultry.
Under the Livestock Mandatory Reporting Program, USDA currently publishes non-carcass merit premiums paid for ACL-compliant hogs on the Non-Carcass Merit Premium report.
This addition will provide pork industry stakeholders with the information necessary to make informed production and marketing decisions relating to ACL-compliant hogs.
Twenty states filed an amicus curiae brief with the U.S. Supreme Court supporting the petition filed by the North American Meat Institute challenging California’s Proposition 12.
The Meat Institute has called the law unconstitutional and states it will hurt the nation’s food value chain by significantly increasing costs for producers and consumers.