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The egg producer's image is directly related to the anti farming propaganda that gets circulated around by the animal rights groups.

If the public really wants to pay 6 bucks for a dozen eggs and shell out more tax money to cover the increased costs of serving meals in prisons, schools and hospitals it sounds great. Not to mention putting additional burden on our already strained farmers.

Everyone in California needs to understand that the people behind all of this don't even eat eggs, or any animal products for that matter. This is obviously another ploy by the Vegan minority to make it more expensive for the regular, hard working, tax paying American men and women to buy eggs and feed their families.

People need to pay attention and look deeper into this issue. If chickens are not in cages and easily managed how else can farmers keep up with the demand? Eggs just don't appear on super market shelves. The eggs have to be produced, collected, processed, packed, shipped and delivered to every grocery outlet in America. We are talking about enough eggs to support millions of people every day in every town in all 50 states..... And doing it in a COST EFFECTIVE MANNER.

This whole deal is about one thing; ENDING all animal use by passing one regulation here and one act there. This time it is aimed at chicken farming. Next time it is dog breeding. Next time it is horse racing. Next time it is cancer research. These groups have no shame and will stage scenes and do what ever is necessary to make their points. They love to show horrible images, produce make believe stories and put 4 or 5 misguided people in a tiny cage, throw blood, toss urine and fling poo on anyone that get's in their way.

The very words "animal abuse" is what is being abused here. Animal abuse is the lady down the street with 60 cats in a one bedroom apartment with no litter box. Animal abuse is the forgotten donkey in the back 40 that can barely walk because his hooves are curled up like bananas from not being trimmed in 5 years.

Animal abuse is NOT farmers producing food for Americans.

Californians need to understand what is happening and say no to the animal rights groups. With current sky rocketing gas and grocery costs how could almost 800,000 consumers even think of imposing an act that would bring increased financial stress upon themselves and their state.

American entrepreneurs are the greatest the world has.  If chickens are taken out of cages, then American entrepreneurs will develop new technologies and methods to increase the production of eggs.  

Why do you discount the American farmer so much?  

Did you know Arrowhead that a scientific study recently done in Australia showed that non-caged chickens had more significantly more stress as well as deaths from them pecking each other as well as from diseases?  This is not a good idea nor is it the way to regulate farming. We have cruelty laws to protect animals.  Farmers are very intelligent and good business people.  If there is a better way to raise chickens they will find it.  But this in not the answer.  Those proposing these laws have no first hand knowledge about raising livestock or chickens.  They really don't want anyone raising these animals anyway, so easy for them to condemn the existing animal husbandry methods and to use misinformation to destroy the industry in the end.   This type of legislation will raise our food prices significantly and cause food shortages.  Do we really need that?

RE: Arrowhead (PETA member)

As a person who works heavily in the agriculture industry and has a degree in Animal Science from a University known for their Poultry Science Program, I will tell you that we have been working on making the chickens in these facilities as healthy and happy as possible.  Healthy Happy Chickens lay more eggs.  Anyone, with any scientific background will tell you that when conditions are good animals produce more young (in this case eggs).   Well we've done it.  Conditions are optimal and the chickens are laying lots of eggs.

My mom has a large flock (approx 200) of free range chickens.  No cages.  Chickens run around all day and eat insects and are locked up at night.  They live on average less than a year.  They also do not produce nearly the number of eggs as commercial chickens.  If they see a hawk or a predator that day all the chickens get scared and egg production decreases dramatically.  You don't see that happen in commercial facilities.  The animals there are less stressed and are fed a good balanced diet.

Also, it is irresponsible for us to knowling decrease production of any food product with the population rising and people going hungry all over the world.   Just think of how many people you can feed on those eggs and remember if we decrease production then there will be less food.  This means prices will rise.  More animals and people will starve to death.   A vote to end cage production of eggs is a vote to kill animals and humans.  Slow starvation  would be a horrible way to die.