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What dictator Senator sponcers such bills?. #844503
08/20/08 09:23 PM
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Los Angeles Times
USDA sued over farm animal rights ballot measure
-- Tony Barboza
11:27 AM, August 15, 2008
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/unleashed/2008/08/usda-egg-board.html

Backers of a farm animal rights measure on California's November
ballot have sued agriculture officials, saying they illegally approved
$3 million in spending by an egg board to defeat the measure.

The federal lawsuit, filed Wednesday by Californians for Humane Farms,
says the U.S. Department of Agriculture approved the $3 million in
spending by the federally supervised American Egg Board, an egg
producers' trade group, despite a law prohibiting the board from using
funds to influence government policy.

The measure, Proposition 2 on the Nov. 4 ballot, takes aim at
so-called "factory farms" and would be the most comprehensive farm
animal rights law in the country, its supporters say. The law would
ban cramped metal cages for egg-laying hens, metal gestation crates
for pregnant sows and veal crates for lambs — industry standards that
confine animals so that they can barely move.

But a recent UC Davis study said that if the measure passes, the
state's $330-million egg industry will be so heavily restricted it
would face "almost complete annihilation."


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Re: What dictator Senator sponcers such bills?. [Re: Mira Trapper] #844512
08/20/08 09:30 PM
08/20/08 09:30 PM

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Don't need a senator to sponsor a ballot initiative in California. Just need a petition with X number of signatures to get it on the ballot.

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