WASHINGTON – A proposition that would ban modern housing systems for egg-laying hens, veal calves and gestating sows by 2015 was approved on Election Day by California voters.
Florida, Arizona, Colorado and Oregon have passed similar laws for swine and veal. California, however, becomes the first state to require that all egg-producing chickens be kept in more spacious enclosures or free to roam a henhouse. Most pig and veal farmers in the state had reportedly already expanded their pen sizes.