Then-Gov. Chris Christie rejected a pair of similar bills as he eyed his first run for president.
has signed a bipartisan law paving the way for New Jersey to ban gestation crates used to confine pregnant pigs.
The decision caps a long lobbying effort from animal-rights groups and an unexpected saga in which celebrities, many from the Garden State, prodded Christie to support a ban and critics accused him of twice rejecting it to avoid upsetting pig farmers in the early voting state of Iowa in the run-up to his first campaign for president.
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