Meet the Teenagers Putting Pressure on Chris Christie
Twin sisters from New Jersey gather 125,000 signatures on a petition asking the governor to outlaw a farming technique seen as inhumane.
New Jersey governor Chris Christie speaks at the Economic Club of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014.
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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie faces a porky dilemma.
On his desk sits a bill outlawing the use of gestation crates in pig farming—a controversial practice that in essence, puts pregnant sows in a box while awaiting the birth of piglets. The bill easily passed both houses of the New Jersey legislature last month, and Christie has until early December to sign it. He vetoed a similar bill last year.