Livestock industry wins Supreme Court appeal - CNN.com - 0 views
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The Obama administration sided with pork producers, a move criticized by a number of animal rights groups.
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Pork producers in their legal brief estimated that about 3% of swine are non-ambulatory when they arrive at the slaughterhouse.
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The meat industry argued being forced to immediately euthanize all downed animals would hurt its ability to detect and fight one particularly virulent disease: foot-and-mouth, which is highly contagious.
