Posted on 01/01/2015 10:28:11 AM PST by PROCON
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — The new year is expected to bring rising chicken egg prices across the U.S. as California starts requiring farmers to house hens in cages with enough space to move around and stretch their wings.
The new standard backed by animal rights advocates has drawn ire nationwide because farmers in Iowa, Ohio and other states who sell eggs in California have to abide by the same requirements.
To comply, farmers have to put fewer hens into each cage or invest in revamped henhouses, passing along the expense to consumers shopping at grocery stores. California is the nation's largest consumer of eggs and imports about one-third of its supply.
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It's for the chickens!
As soon as cage free eggs became available, that’s the only thing that I put into my grocery cart. I bet they are of higher nutritional quality, too, because the hens are much less stressed.
But we do not need the government enforcing more laws and regulation.......... Do you agree with that?
And I am willing to bet there will come a time soon when you will be happy for any egg, even if it is covered with chicken crap you have to wash off your self. It has happened in the past, it will happen again. There will come a time you will be more worried about you than the chicken.
Maybe they should stop selling eggs in Kalipornia for a while
How socialist of you.
Let them eat cake!
Heavy-handed government regulations that artificially make food and everything cost more is liberty?
Many people are not allowed to raise chickens in their backyard.
People who know me say that I am to the right of Atilla The Hun. Mebbe, mebbe not, but this YouTube got to me - especially when you see the affected people downwind and way the pigs are corralled.
One of my earliest memories is Mom stepping on the heads of chickens and then the bodies thrashing about while they bled out. When the killing, butchering and eating is linked, it is only then that you really respect animal life. Maybe that is what we should go back to, letting you kill your own food.
Most of the world spends ALL their income on food and lodging. We may be like them soon with all the growth in govt and regulation.
I genuinely have no problem paying another buck for eggs if it means doing things the right way. They are still the lowest priced source of high quality protein around.
I hope you can be an a conservative and be opposed to cruelty to animals. If anything we have an obesity problem in this country; people choke themselves on meat and fatty processed food from industrial farms (which are often heavily subsidized). People can choose to eat healthier and save a few extra cents elsewhere if it means not torturing helpless animals.
Now THAT is a Mc Mansion, a real Taj Ma Chicken
I was involved with an organic chicken farm for while. These were the most sickly chickens I have ever seen. Death rate was atrocious because the organic system would not let you use common sense feed additives that had been researched over many years. I would sooner choose the caged chickens.
I felt sorrier for the organic chickens that died slow sickly deaths.........................
I oppose cruelty to animals. I also oppose government cruelty to the people, which seems to be many peoples answer to the first thing.
Its the politically correct thing to do.
I genuinely have no problem paying another buck for eggs if it means doing things the right way. They are still the lowest priced source of high quality protein around.
But do you really want the govt in control of your food? You have seen what they have done to your utility bills and health care. Do you remember the long lines the Russian people stood in for any food because of the govt control?
Live is trade offs. Idealism is for libs and youth. Conservative understand history.
I like Eggland’s Best Cage Free, whatever they are doing they should keep up the good work :)
Typical liberals. Fake compassion for birds, but none for human babies.
I say fake because like all statist endeavors, it isn’t really about the welfare of the chicken, it’s about power and control over the people. Especially over the producers.
Do you eat meat?
Do you wear or use leather products?
Do you swat and kill fly's?
What about ants...do you kill them?
Have you ever slapped a mosquito?
I understand enough to know that people who have no standards of decency are dead men walking. Quite frankly what I resent is no being “allowed” to raise a hen or two on my own land.
I am not a PETA fan. I think they are a bunch of hypocrites, since it was discovered that they themselves euthanized many many pets they supposedly "saved".
Many hens do die from being confined in cages. In any event, they are shipped off at around 24 months old, when their egg laying drops off, to slaughter.
Farm animals are primarily raised for food, but how they become food is important. We could start hacking limbs off of cattle in the field and stuff the bloody results into our mouths. What would that say about the so-called elevated animal, humans?
The Torah mentions again and again that it is forbidden to be cruel to animals. The act I mentioned above is specifically prohibited in the Torah. The word treif means "torn", as in limbs torn from a living animal. It has been extended to include animals not killed according to Jewish law.
Our greatest leaders---Moses, David, Jacob--were all shepherds and were praised by G-d as being humane to their flocks of sheep and goats. Rifka (Rebekah) drew water over and over again for Eliezer's camels, and this kindness was a sign to Eliezer that she had the requisite qualities necessary to be the wife of Yitzchok (Isaac).
Jew are not permitted to plow a field with 2 different species of animals, lest one be dragged by the faster species. They are not permitted to slaughter a mother animal on the same day as the animal's offspring. They must send a mother bird away from her nest so that she does not suffer at seeing her eggs or young taken. Before you eat, you must feed your animals first. Even the stringent laws of the Sabbath may be violated if it is necessary to alleviate the suffering of an animal in danger of dying or in pain.
Buying cage free eggs is not a perfect solution to preventing cruelty to the hens, but at least I'm trying. I am aware of battery egg production and this is my way to protest that practice.
I’m with you.
I’ve had chickens on my property - I cannot even image owning them and maintaining them in the conditions prior to this change. Even with the change - it’s still sad.
I’ve given up eggs and chicken.
Does anyone see a sick chicken in the photo? They look clear eyed and healthy to me. And lots of eggs, clean eggs, anyone notice that? And lots of nutritional food for them, lots of it. Fresh food too. And clean water.
Aint all bad to be a chicken is it?
Only bad thing is there aint a rooster there.
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