States Fight California's Chicken Cage Law | Animals | Forums

Wow, I hadn't heard of this before, will be interesting to see if the California law holds up to the challenge

By most measures, David Kesten's hens are living the good life.

"They can act like chickens, they can run around," says Kesten, who's raising hens in an old wooden shed in the open countryside near Concordia, Mo. "They can go out and catch bugs, they can dig in the ground."

But most U.S. hens live crammed into very close quarters, according to , with the Humane Society of the U.S. And he says that's just wrong.

"There are some things we should not do to animals," says Maxwell.

California voters felt the same way, and six years ago they passed , requiring California producers to provide cages that are almost twice as large as most chickens have now. The Legislature followed that with a law requiring that all eggs sold in California be raised under those conditions.  

Rest here

http://www.npr.org/b.....-law?sc=tw