Egg farmers seek national standards for chicken cages
California egg farmers and the Humane Society -- which squared off over a 2008 initiative to give chickens more living space -- are now joining forces behind a new law to establish national standards for chicken ranches. If it passes, however, it would invalidate the California law.
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J.S. West( Tomas Ovalle / For The Times / May 26, 2012 )
Raul Iniguez checks up on laying hens at J.S. West Farms in Atwater, Calif., which has spent more than $7 million building new barns to comply with California's 2008 initiative Proposition 2, which requires, in part, that egg-laying hens be confined in ways that allow them to stand a spread their wings.
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