Californians weigh making egg-laying hens cage-free by 2022
Story Date: 10/8/2018

 

Source: Jocelyn Gecker, WRAL, 10/6/18

 
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.

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