A group of Midwestern pig farmers and the pork producer they sell to yesterday asked a federal judge in Boston to keep Massachusetts from enforcing a humane-treatment law passed by voters in 2016, saying the law violates their constitutional rights and would mean ruinously high prices and spot shortages not just for Massachusetts bacon lovers but pork consumers across the country. Read more.
Massachusetts has agreed to put off enforcement of a law requiring pigs be raised humanely, which voters approved in 2016, until at least after the Supreme Court rules on a case involving a similar law in California, likely early next year. Read more.
Raising the specter of breakfasts without bacon and festival sausage stands without sausage across much of New England, trade groups representing restaurant owners across all of New England save Connecticut and the National Pork Producers Council yesterday sued the state over regulations, set to go into effect in less than two weeks, that would require pork sold, or even trans-shipped through, Massachusetts to come only from what the state considers humanely raised pigs. Read more.
Just a few months ago whilst on the way back from a weekend in Vegas with Adam, Kaz, The Zak and Swrrrly, UHUB-1 hit a pothole in one of the taxiways at Hanscom- causing my monocle to fall into Adam's glass of port, Swrrrly's Cuban cigar to nearly set the Alpacian leather on fire, and the door on The Zak's soundproof chamber to pop open.
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