Amid criticism from both conventional egg producers and animal rights activists, California’s law mandating roomier cages for egg-laying chickens is driving growth in the pasture-raised egg market
It’s been over a month since California’s caged hens were given enough room to freely move their legs, but plenty of critics are still ruffled about the new law, which requires that egg-laying hens must be able to lie down, stand up, fully extend their limbs and turn around freely.
Bradley Miller, president of the Humane Farming Association, blasted both the law and its primary sponsor, the Humane Society of the United States, in an editorial published earlier this month in the Sacramento Bee. Calling the law an “obscene reversal of voter intent”, he criticized the Humane Society for allowing language in the law that promotes “the unending use of cages.”
May 01, 2017 at 07:49AM
from Amy Westervelt
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