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...signatures to put Proposition Two on the state’s November ballot. The Proposition mandates that all farm animals be given enough space to lie down, turn around, and fully extend their limbs. If passed, it would end the confinement of veal calves, gestating pigs, and egg-laying hens in restrictive cages across the state–20 million animals in all, the vast majority hens confined to battery cages...
...This has the egg industry enraged. Big Eggs has already poured $7.5 million into defeating the measure, with egg industry magazines calling for $50 million in campaign funds from the biggest egg barons...
...Matt Samson of Californians for Safe Food–the group representing the egg industry and other opponents of Prop Two–insists this isn’t about the money...
...Samson told me that stricter regulations would simply push egg producers out of state, hurting local business while enlarging the carbon footprint of importing eggs into California...
...most of the $7.5 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...