Commentary: The Supreme Court shouldn’t meddle with California’s standards on meat and eggs

On industrial pig farms in the United States, mother pigs are confined for their entire lives in barren cages barely larger than their bodies. In these “gestation crates,” these intelligent animals are tortured. They cannot turn around or even fully lie down, causing them to develop painful sores and cramped muscles. Their piglets are born into a densely packed environment ripe for disease and infection.

For years, the majority of calves raised for veal and hens raised to produce eggs suffered lives of similar