Blue state outlaws most eggs unless cage-free, before new year

Fox Business ^ | 12/20/24 | Greg Wehner

[bert]

Nearly all eggs sold in Michigan starting before the New Year must come from cage-free birds, even as egg prices continue to climb.

Michigan lawmakers modified the Animal Industry Act in 2019, requiring shell eggs from chickens, ducks and other fowl, sold in the state to be from cage-free housing systems, starting Dec. 31, 2024.

[Paul R.]

With a light, that rooster will be crowing all hours. You’ll get more eggs, but it’s hard on the hens because, well, they don’t sleep as much / as deeply.

[Paul R.]

Indeed. Once you start carefully observing them and seeing how their behavioral traits (I hesitate to call them “personalities”) vary and develop from breed to breed and bird to bird when they have a variety of “inputs”, I begin to wonder how far birds could go if bred for “smarts” for hundreds of thousands of years...

[Scrambler Bob]

I begin to wonder how far birds could go if bred for “smarts” for hundreds of thousands of years...
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Where do you think Bird-Brain Democrats evolved from?

[Pelham]

Bird flu is hitting the egg producers in California. $6 a dozen today.

[Wonder Warthog]

"They likely don’t even know or care how they are being treated."

Sort of like our current "resident"...

[markman46]

watch for increasing reports of bird flu in the near future

[Manic_Episode]

Have the Japanese invented Kobe Chicken yet?

Massage the chickens twice daily while giving them beer.

I bet Kobe Chicken eggs would be gourmet!

Currently paying .50 cents an egg. For that price I want Kobe eggs.

[wardaddy]

That sucks cause I’m a egg eating fool

Prolly 4-5 days a week

Scrambled farm eggs with cheddar or goat cheese and chives with toast and fancy butter and preserves

Tabasco of course lol

[rottweiller_inc]

“Break the large farms up into smaller farms, each raising 2500 chickens.

I have a good friend who is a Mennonite Pastor and he has around 100,000 chickens and cage free = more money (with more expense) or more precisely, the cage free certifications.

[Wonder Warthog]

"Tabasco of course lol"

Tabasco good. Tony Chachere's better.

[Cronos]

The thing is that caged hens live miserable lives and that is inhumanely cruel.

Hens are crowded into tiny, cramped "battery cages" where they cannot move, walk, turn around, stand or stretch their wings.

Them being stuck in these positions makes the waste concentrated, the living conditions are Philip K Dick level claustrophic, dark and stressful.

Yes, this makes it cheaper, but this is insanely cruel, don't you think?

[Cronos]

yldstrk Do you hear yourself? Have you made yourself aware of the sickening and filthy conditions of the chickens that are stacked in layers and live only to lay eggs?

Cage free at least is a matter of conscience and good farming.

I agree - the way the battery chicken farms operate are nightmare situations, where they not only are "live only to lay eggs" but they can't move or turn around and have to sit in their own filth.

We need to do better than that as the caretakers of God's creations

[bert]

No

Cruelty perceived is in essence your mental state of mind