Actually there are only a small number of farm firms supplying most of the eggs for America. When the law was passed it was exactly the same situation. All of the farms were forced to start the changeover because they all sold eggs in California and the economics of two product lines.
The states — Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Alabama, Kentucky and Iowa — failed to show how the law would affect them and not just individual egg farmers, a unanimous three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled. The court upheld a lower court decision that dismissed the lawsuit.
California voters approved a ballot initiative in 2008 that set the space requirements for egg-laying hens in the state. The standards say chickens must spend most of their day with enough space to lie down, stand up, turn around and fully extend their limbs.
The measure gave farmers until 2015 to comply.
California egg farmers raised concerns that the measure would put them at a competitive disadvantage with their counterparts in other states. In 2010, California legislators expanded the law to ban the sale of eggs from any hens that were not raised in compliance with California’s animal care standards. The California law cites concerns about protecting people from salmonella and other illnesses.
The six states argued that the law would force their egg farmers to stop selling in California or spend hundreds of millions of dollars complying with the California standard. Ninth Circuit Judge Susan Graber said that argument did not give the states standing to file suit.
“The standards say chickens must spend most of their day with enough space to lie down, stand up, turn around and fully extend their limbs.”
Wow, that is a small amount of decency to ask for. Who would be against this? What a nation we’ve become.
Having said that, I am against Net Neutrality!