Word: caging
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...bigger question is whether the risk-taking, hard-charging, high-living times will give way to a quieter, duller, less profitable and far more regulated era - not so much a golden age as a golden cage. The debt-fueled days are almost certainly history, and households across the capital will have to tighten their belts and live with a lot less leverage; the banking crisis has already made it considerably harder for house buyers to get mortgages of any sort, let alone ones requiring only a tiny down payment. Jon Lloyd, joint head of LG's real estate practice, points...
...This January, “Sam,” an undercover investigator for the animal protection group Mercy for Animals, visited a Gemperle Enterprises egg farm in Merced County, California. What he saw horrified him–chickens packed six or eight to a single cage, each with less space than an A4 sheet of paper. The cages were stacked several stories high, forcing birds in the lower rungs to live out their lives in the excrement of birds above...
...million behind the ‘no’ campaign has come from out of state egg producers–an unlikely move if these companies were expecting a windfall of egg exports to California. The Proposition gives California’s egg producers until 2015 to go cage-free, and in the meantime the likely beneficiaries are California’s smaller, local, and more sustainable family farms...
...real egg industry fear is not that California will import its eggs, but rather that it will export its higher welfare standards. When asked why out-of-state egg producers oppose the proposition, Samson conceded they fear “longer-term ramifications” against caged production. After similar ballot initiatives against pig and veal calf confinement in Florida and Arizona in 2002 and 2006 respectively, industry took the message. Smithfield Farms, one of the nation’s largest pig producers, announced it would phase out narrow gestation crates, and even Burger King promised to adopt more cage...
...corner, McGillivray gathered the ball at the top of the circle. This time, the freshman passed to senior back Francine Polet who fired a shot on net. Sophomore midfielder Chloe Keating was standing in front of the net and managed to tip the ball past Duffy and into the cage. Midway through the half, Harvard capitalized on a mistake, extending its lead after it turned the ball over in the Northeastern circle. McVeigh had pushed the ball ahead and looked to cross it in front of the net, but the pass was intercepted by a Husky defender. As Northeastern attempted...