Last week, a coalition of animal advocacy groups was heard by the New Jersey Supreme Court.
These groups' goal is to end what they consider egregious factory farm abuses permissible by the state Department of Agriculture, such as confining pregnant pigs for months at a time in gestation crates, tethering and restrictively confining calves raised for veal until they are sent to slaughter and mutilations without anesthesia including castration, de-beaking, de-toeing and tail docking. A ruling from the Supreme Court is expected to be handed down in about one to two months.