Rotten Eggs Being Thrown Against California Prop 2

Take a close look at the wording of Proposition 2. Probably written by extremists, an examination of the text of the proposed law reveals intent beyond the stated claims of it's proponents.

First: the actual proposed title "Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act" is not the same as is seen in the summary by the legislative analyst (makes me wonder if he or she belongs to the sponsoring group).
Second: the use of the word "cruel" labels farm workers as cruel. All those who have raised or worked with animals using the current standards of care are now declared "cruel".
Third: the law refers to the affected farm animals as "his or her". Henceforth all animals, even those destined for slaughter are now nearly human.
There is more.

Therefore, I do not believe the intent of Prop 2 is to improve standards of confinement. We can be sure that the selected wording will be used by extremists as a precedent to demand future concessions by agribusiness and even pet owners.

If objective agricultural wording had been chosen I would be supporting improved standards. As it is, I will vote "No" on Prop 2.

California law should be good for the California People, it should not label them as cruel. And proposed law should be presented to voters in an honest fashion.

You should be voting no on prop 2. Im in High school and curretntly involved in the FFA they are willing to make exceptions for 4-H but not FFA they dont have any good knowledge.
They no nothing about the gestation crates for swine we put them in there for only a certian amount of time so they DONT crush their babies. People who want to vote yes on Prop 2 so not know what they are talking about they only target the people that DONT take care of their animals but in reality the agriculture section of this strate is doing the right thing.
If they are willing to have 88% egg Costs go up and pay that into taxes which is rediculous if you ask me, then they can go ahead and do that but the people voting yes dont need to bring down the whole state. California is the 1st largest producer of eggs!!! And the 5th LARGEST consumer, they say its going to better but in reality its not!!
Roperchik 11

You should be voting no on prop 2. Im in High school and curretntly involved in the FFA they are willing to make exceptions for 4-H but not FFA they dont have any good knowledge.
They no nothing about the gestation crates for swine we put them in there for only a certian amount of time so they DONT crush their babies. People who want to vote yes on Prop 2 so not know what they are talking about they only target the people that DONT take care of their animals but in reality the agriculture section of this strate is doing the right thing.
If they are willing to have 88% egg Costs go up and pay that into taxes which is rediculous if you ask me, then they can go ahead and do that but the people voting yes dont need to bring down the whole state. California is the 1st largest producer of eggs!!! And the 5th LARGEST consumer, they say its going to better but in reality its not!!
Roperchik 11

"Roperchik 11", or whoever the hell you are. You really fooled me there for a second. You said you're in high school but judging by your spelling and grammar ability I was guessing you were in 1st grade. You really don't know much about Proposition 2, do you? If that's the way California egg farmers are going to treat animals, then they absolutely deserve to be crippled and put out of business. And guess what? The price will only go up about 1 cent. If people can't afford that, then they're going to starve to death anyway! How would you like to live in a cage barely larger than yourself for your whole life. People like you make me sick!

Allan,
My name is Sergeant Bryan Jones from the United States Marine Corp. I would first like to say that you are a sorry exuse for a man wanting to pick an a High School Student. Second thing i would like to say is that I grew up on one of the "Crewl" Poltry ranches you are talking about and would like you to think about what you are asking. First with the space requirements that you are imposing for these animals our ranch will go from roughly 300,000 birds to less than 90,000 think about the egg production lost from that alone. now we will have to provide extra workers because your proposition will eliminate cages we will have to provide extra workers to search for the eggs left now on the ground where these birds deficate so after finding the egg and washing the egg you now have to decide how long that perticular egg has been on the ground to decide if it could be rotten so lose egg production which will lose money but hire extra hands to find the eggs that may no longer be good so what you are asking for will drive all ranchers out of california this in turn will mean that eggs will be trucked if from in most cases tyson food corp. in arkansas costing diesel for the truck plus the driver payroll but it will only go up a penny an egg you say where did you pull that from the egg production association is saying 90 cents an egg that means you will be paying on average about 12.00 dollars a carton i personally belive it will not be that much i am thinking an extra 50 cents an egg either way ill tell you this much the egg mcmuffin will not be on the dollar menu any more any way i apreciate that you would like to express your feelings on the proposition which i am sorry to say passed because i fight for the right for you to do so but i dont like the fact that you have taken it upon yourself to pick on a high school girl to make your point and to roperchick i would like to say thank you for fighting the good fight and even though allan does not appriciate the facts i think you have got a pretty good grip on what is actually in the proposition
thank all of you who took the time to read this and i hope you will realize the impact of this bill and help the california farmers to pass bills in the future that will revise this bill to more workable salution
Sgt. Jones Bryan D
(USMC)

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