Californians weigh making egg-laying hens cage-free by 2022
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ” California voters are right to think they already weighed in on how big cages should be for egg-laying hens.In 2008, voters ushered in Proposition 2, which sought to free egg-laying hens from tiny cages. It didn’t outlaw cages but barred California farmers from keeping hens ” as well as calves raised for veal and breeding pigs ” in pens so small they virtually couldn’t move.Since then, supermarket shelves have filled with cage-free egg varieties. […]
