The ban marks a long-fought victory for animal rights advocates.
They’ve sought for more than a decade to outlaw gestational pig crates in New Jersey, though they are not widely used and the Garden State produced just 7,500 pigs in 2022 — well behind the top-ranking Iowa’s production of 23 million hogs, according to theStill, supporters heralded Murphy’s signature of the crate ban as a victory for the humane treatment of animals.
A coalition led by the Animal Legal Defense Fund and the Humane Society of the United States has sought for 13 years to ban the use of small crates that confine mother pigs and calves to raise veal. But the massive amount of attention on Christie at the time raised the movement’s profile, with critics asserting that Christie was trying to appeal to voters in Iowa, the first presidential caucus state. Cher tweeted that Christie was a “despicable bully” and then-Daily Show host Jon Stewart ripped the governor for “kowtowing to a state 1,000 miles away in exchange for...the slimmest chance of political gain.
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