California Requires More Humane Egg Farms
Written by Bruce Goldstein Wednesday, 05 November 2008 23:45
The Los Angeles Times reports: "With the passage of Proposition 2 on Tuesday, California voters decided to forbid the caging of farm animals in enclosures that do not allow them to stand, turn around, lie down and fully extend their limbs. Farmers will have to remove hens from so-called battery cages and raise them in hen houses or outside yards. Confining crates for veal calves and pregnant sows also are outlawed under Proposition 2. But because there are few veal producers in the state and the largest California pork producer plans to eliminate small crates voluntarily, the law will mostly affect the state's 20 million hens that produce roughly 5 billion eggs a year. The measure does not go into effect until 2015."
While California has far stronger labor protections for farmworkers than either federal or other states' laws, there is a housing crisis for farmworkers in California. The hens will have more space. Now it should be the farmworkers' turn.
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