Your editorial (“Bill’s defeat a win for animal welfare,” June 25) misrepresents my efforts to establish a national standard for the humane treatment of egg-laying hens.
In 2008, California voters overwhelmingly passed Proposition 2. This initiative required egg producers to increase cage size so birds could stand up and extend their wings.
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Its not easy being a chicken. Those raised for meat in China, for example, have lives that are so horrific farm managers feed them Prozac. Egg-laying hens in Californias factory farms are almost inevitably kept in wire-mesh cages so narrow they cannot even turn around.
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