Ohio judge blocks ‘feral swine bill’ that criminalized owning, killing all pigs

An Ohio judge has stopped the state from enforcing a law that unintentionally makes it illegal for anyone to “own, kill, transport, feed” pigs.

The law, known as the “feral swine bill,” would have negatively impacted the state’s 3,400 pig farmers, as well as the owners of preserves where wild pigs are hunted.

A lawsuit that sought to stop the law from going into effect was filed March 18. It noted that provisions in the law would have criminalized owning pigs, as well as the killing of all pigs or profiting from the killing of all pigs…

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