CALIFORNIA says "no more EGGS"......hard to even make this up

[Fishhead]

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=ArticleIssueNme>California Prop 2 Passes</TD></TR><TR><TD>

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</TD></TR><TR><TD>New rules will close down the state's egg industry, observers report.</TD></TR><TR><TD>(11/5/2008)</TD></TR><TR><TD>Farm Futures staff</TD></TR><TR><TD>

</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=5 align=right border=0><TBODY><TR><TD><SCRIPT src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type=text/javascript></SCRIPT><IFRAME src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.php?u=http%3A//www.farmfutures.com/ME2/dirmod.asp%3Fsid%3DCD26BEDECA4A4946A1283CC7786AEB5A%26nm%3DNews%26type%3Dnews%26mod%3DNews%26mid%3D9A02E3B96F2A415ABC72CB5F516B4C10%26tier%3D3%26nid%3D393466E2BBA0466D95172BF1C28BFB60" frameBorder=0 width=52 scrolling=no height=80></IFRAME></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>The <?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = ST1 /><ST1:STATE><ST1LACE>California</ST1LACE></ST1:STATE> ballot initiative on farm animal housing has passed by a fairly large margin with 63% for to 37% against as of <ST1:TIME Hour="5" Minute="30">5:30 a.m.</ST1:TIME> Central with 87% of the vote in.
The initiative, listed as Proposition 2, or "Prop 2," closes down the <ST1:STATE><ST1LACE>California</ST1LACE></ST1:STATE> egg industry -- affecting 95% of the state's egg production and forcing <ST1:STATE><ST1LACE>California</ST1LACE></ST1:STATE> consumers to buy eggs from other states and from <ST1:COUNTRY-REGION><ST1LACE>Mexico</ST1LACE></ST1:COUNTRY-REGION>. Prop 2 will become effective in 2015.
Passage represents a huge victory for Prop 2's supporters, the main two of which are the animal rights groups Farm Sanctuary and the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), the latter of which supports vegetarianism. It is largely expected that Farm Sanctuary and HSUS will employ momentum from their victory to carry the measure to other states that have ballot initiatives and directly to state assemblies in those states that do not.
HSUS chief executive officer and president Wayne Pacelle, in a statement issued late last night, declared that <ST1:STATE><ST1LACE>California</ST1LACE></ST1:STATE> voters "have taken a stand for compassion and decency and said systematic mistreatment of animals on factory farms cannot continue. All animals deserve humane treatment, including animals raised for food."
Californians for Safe Food, which opposed Prop 2, issued its own statement last night, saying the coalition led by Farm Sanctuary and HSUS "led an emotionally manipulative, dishonest and often deceptive campaign." Safe Food commended its supporters and listed a number of accomplishments, including the fact that more than 30 of <ST1:STATE><ST1LACE>California</ST1LACE></ST1:STATE>'s major newspapers came out in opposition to Prop 2.
Prop 2 requires that all farm animals, "for all or the majority of any day," not be confined or tethered in a manner that prevents an animal from lying down, standing up, turning around or extending its limbs without touching another animal or an enclosure such as a cage or stall. It specifically addresses modern cage housing for hens and stalls for sows and veal calves. It carries criminal penalties for violations, including fines and jail terms.
The pork and veal industries already have been researching group housing systems to phase out stalls as the science and technology to do so becomes available, and modern cage housing for hens already provides the highest standards of animal welfare as prescribed by animal ethicists and scientists.
Hens in cage housing systems can express almost all natural behavior but cannot extend their wings without touching another hen or their enclosures. Two important studies have concluded that Prop 2 will force all cage and most cage-free egg producers in <ST1:STATE><ST1LACE>California</ST1LACE></ST1:STATE> to shut down and will cost <ST1:STATE><ST1LACE>California</ST1LACE></ST1:STATE> thousands of jobs and hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost revenues.
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[Fishhead]

Hello to no more chicken coops and more home foreclosures.


WOW

 

[Cracker]

California is a mess, they keep passing shit that just keeps killing them financially b/c they are so far left.

I am sure things like this will continue to drive the overall cost of living skyward on the left coast.

 

[Fishhead]

:cripwalk:


Midwest farmers are dancing on their dirt roads.

 

[Mr.Smith]

egg producers will move across the border to Nevada. End result is eggs will cost more in California because they will have to be shipped farther. It is stupid and pointless.

 

[Fishhead]

Stuff like this is why I stated a few months ago.........IOWA will be the gambling mecca of the world in 50 years.

No, it will not involve cock fighting, so don't even go there.

:toast:

 

[Cracker]

:cripwalk:


Midwest farmers are dancing on their dirt roads.

I would have to look at it but Tyson owns so much of the chicken production in the US. They sub-contract to farmers to raise the chickens and the majority of those are already in the midwest. Don't know how it will impact the overall industry nationwide but it greatly impacts Cali with having to "import" eggs from other states.

 

[Mr.Leisure]

i voted yes

 

[Fishhead]

I would have to look at it but Tyson owns so much of the chicken production in the US. They sub-contract to farmers to raise the chickens and the majority of those are already in the midwest. Don't know how it will impact the overall industry nationwide but it greatly impacts Cali with having to "import" eggs from other states.

Dire straits in that state currently.

At least they have tennis, right Railbird?

 

[BAGIANT]

It seems to me it doesn't close down the industry, but makes sure it gives more room for the hens. That doesn't sound like closing down an industry to me.

 

[Cracker]

It seems to me it doesn't close down the industry, but makes sure it gives more room for the hens. That doesn't sound like closing down an industry to me.

You would have to understand how a chicken farm works and what it consists of. If birds aren't allowed to be caged or touching another bird the amount of land it would take to house enough birds to be productive would be too expensive, especially in Cali. If you get rid of the birds for the amount of room you currently have, then you wouldn't be able to make enough money to pay the bills.

 

[Mr.Smith]

http://www.safecaliforniafood.org/node/34

 

[OccamsRazor]

Now that the big corporations are gone. Is it feasible to buy a little farm and get in the free range chicken business in California? "Occam's Free Range Chicken Eggs California Grown." on the box.

Great business opportunity? People are going to be wanting Cali eggs not Mexican

 

[Cracker]

Now that the big corporations are gone. Is it feasible to buy a little farm and get in the free range chicken business in California? "Occam's Free Range Chicken Eggs California Grown." on the box.

Great business opportunity? People are going to be wanting Cali eggs not Mexican

Free Range means nothing more than giving the birds the ability to go outside. Most "free range" chickens never see the out side.

It would be a great marketing tool to the hippies in Cali but with this law you couldn't have enough birds to pay the bills or couldn't afford the land to have enough birds to make it worth your while.