Kate wrote on Aug 14, 2008 9:51 PM:It is sad but true that many people are not yet aware of the profound suffering inside California animal factories. Those of us who do know, suffer terribly with the knowledge of it. Enough is enough. Everyone needs to learn about the abhorrent animal cruelty being perpetuated in the name of profit and help stop it by voting Yes! on Prop 2 November 4th. It is simply wrong to treat animals, even animals raised for food, inhumanely.

Carol wrote on Aug 15, 2008 5:45 PM:Sad that so many people are so divorced from their food supply! Making it impossible for chicken farmers WILL put them out of business in this state! How would you like to spend $3 an egg? Won't be able to get chicken - it will be way too expensive! IF you want to be a vegan - go ahead, but PLEASE don't force others into your form of servitude! This country is based on CHOICE! Stop taking it away from us!!!

Mary wrote on Aug 16, 2008 12:45 AM:The personal habits of the free range chicken exercising its freedom include cannibalism and,when opportunity presents itself,eating the rotting flesh of other animals. I have watched them dine by pecking the rotting eyes out of cow skulls. Yum,I suppose? Coyotes,possums,foxes,feral cats and coons like to eat tender young half alive chickens. How cruel nature is. Vote NO on Proposition 2-another Animal Rights bill brought to you by those unaware of the personal habits of their dinner.

John wrote on Aug 19, 2008 8:55 AM:Proposition 2 is a modest measure designed to move the animal agribusiness industry forward and out of the dark ages. The alarmist reactions of those opposed are completely unfounded. UC economists have found that cage free production costs no more than an additional one cent per egg; hardly a sacrifice. As for cannibalism, it happens in cages too, which is why both caged and cage free hens routinely have the ends of their beaks cut off as chicks--a process known to cause both acute and chronic pain. If we really wanted to be humane, we'd give the hens enough space so that they wouldn't become overly aggressive. In the meantime, cage-free is still a big step in the right direction.

MA Moore wrote on Nov 3, 2008 2:18 PM:Check out the European Union of Organic Farmers. If Europe can do it so can America. When I think of America the Beautiful, I think of the herds roaming free on the hills, not steel stucco homes that no one can afford. If Organic Farming is standardized, it will equallize the costs. The initial transition may be costly, but the long term economics will prove to benefit all farmers because there will be less disease and less mortality rates on America's farms.