North Dakota is among the states supporting a legal challenge to a Massachusetts law concerning the confinement of livestock. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Iowa and 21 other pork-production states, including North Dakota, are pushing for an appeal of a federal district court ruling that upheld a 2016 ballot measure in Massachusetts to prohibit the sale of pork, poultry and veal from livestock that were “confined in a cruel manner.”
Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird headed an amici curiae, or an informational brief in support of one side of a case, with 21 additional states to voice opposition to laws that impose “unworkable restrictions” on hog producers…