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...sure [the New Jersey ] decision will have much impact in changing the voting," says Pamela Johnston Conover, a professor of political science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. But she warns that how voters do choose, based on the language on the ballots, could have a far-reaching effect effect on legal rights for same-sex couples. "Most of the ballots have components that go beyond the marriage issue. If passed, they have the potential to have a more wide-sweeping impact on gay and lesbian couples than the ballot initiatives that only look at same...
...Marijuana has found a way to roll itself up in the ballot vote again. This time Nevada and Colorado will decide if an ounce of pot should be legal for personal use for people 21 and older, similar to laws in some European countries. South Dakota will consider legalizing it for medical...
...Although Americans eat more chicken and beef than pork, activists are focusing on ballot initiatives on pigs in part because they are known as intelligent animals. Also, making pregnant sows more comfortable would have less effect on the price of meat than would reforms of chicken- and beef-raising practices. According to Michael Markarian of the Washington-based Humane Society of the United States, the common farm practice of confining sows in 2-ft. by 7-ft. metal pens where they cannot turn around for most of their four to five year breeding life is "especially egregious." Arizona's major...
...Tuesday's election, Ballot Proposition 240, "The Humane Treatment of Farm Animals Act," is expected to pass by a wide margin in this generally conservative state after a contentious and emotional campaign. No matter that the measure, which forbids the confinement of calves and pregnant sows in narrow crates, affects only a single industrial farm in a state that raises little pork and no commercial veal. But agribusiness and animal welfare advocates agree that a victory in Arizona will invigorate the growing national movement to reform factory farms. "If it works in Arizona, then we'll go on to California...
...Arizona is not the first state to address the issue. Florida approved a ballot initiative in 2002-despite jokes about the constitutional "Hamendment"-which forbids the confinement of pregnant pigs. And New Jersey, after passing the nation's first law requiring humane standards for all farm animals, is battling a lawsuit seeking to outlaw sow crates as well as the confinement of veal calves and the force-molting of hens through two-week starvation-a practice which increases egg production. Meanwhile, more than 100 college cafeterias nationwide, under pressure from students, have switched to so-called "cage-free" eggs from...