N.C. Pork Council helps kill law regulating Puppy Mills

A bill aimed at combating puppy mills by regulating commercial dog breeders in North Carolina has failed for the second straight year, in part due to opposition from an industry that doesn’t deal in dogs: the state’s pork producers.

Angie Whitener, the pork council’s lobbyist, said her group does not oppose puppies so much as the bill’s main backers, the Humane Society of the United States.


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