SF Chronicle Article - Court: Lame pigs can't be turned into meat

By Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer

Published Wednesday, March 31, 2010

A federal appeals court revived a California law Wednesday that bans the sale of pork products made from pigs that were too feeble to walk before they were slaughtered.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/03/31/BANU1CO2N1.DTL

For those of you interested in the legal specifics, the ruling in National Meat Association vs. Brown can be viewed at: links.sfgate.com/ZJLK.