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I vote for intelligent food education.

I wonder what the folks who drafted the proposition eat?

Vote Yes! Keep our meat healthy! Increase the availability of local, humanely farmed meat and eggs!

Yeah California

The Humane Society has produced a great little music video about Prop 2:

http://uncaged.yesonprop2.com/

I really hope it passes because it will make it much easier to start passing similar legislation in the rest of the country, but I didn't realize until reading your post that it wouldn't go in effect until 2015. That's a little disappointing. I mean, how long does it take to fling open the cages and let all those poor animals out? ; )

I am absolutely voting yes. As is I only eat non factory farmed meat and free range organic eggs.

Why can't the consumer decide for himself? We already have cage-free eggs and free range meats. For those that cannot afford to spend more on food, they can have the traditional option. There's no need for a portion of society to dictate what kind of food everyone should eat.

if i lived in cali, i would vote yes :)

wow! california's great! (altho 2015 is a little disappointing)

Jems,
This isn't a matter of, as you say, society dictating what kind of food everyone should eat - it's a matter of animal welfare, which is why the Humane Society is spending so much time and money to raise awareness of Prop 2 and the horrendous state of many factory farms.

Just as it is illegal to keep a dog on a 1-foot chain for its entire life, it should be illegal to treat these animals the way they're currently being treated. I highly recommend you click on the link below and then click on the photo of the pig where it says 'watch the real story:'

http://uncaged.yesonprop2.com/

Americans have been spoiled for far too long by falsely cheap food, partly, I believe, because a lot of people have no clue as to where their meat is actually coming from. Thankfully the facts are getting into the mainstream - and people are appalled to discover the awful truth about what they are eating.

P.S. Those huge outbreaks of e-coli contamination in beef that have happened in recent years? The ones where millions of pound of meat were recalled? Millions! Besides the fact that some of these huge slaughterhouses are operating under filthy conditions, the problem lies in the way the cattle are raised, which is force fed grain to fatten them up quickly in feedlots where they stand in their own waste and can barely move around.

Cows who are grass-fed on pastures (like they were intended to be) are naturally resistant to this e-coli problem. In other words, you mess with Mother Nature, and there are gonna be problems - big problems.

I don't live in California, but I do very much hope that it passes.

For those who live in California, vote yes on this for me. When it comes to Virginia, I'll vote yes.

There is nothing wrong with veal. Veal is a younger male calf.

What is wrong is confining a young calf in crate, as the "best quality" veal is currently done. You can buy "rose" or other similar humane veal in SF or the UK.

I'm for Prop 2. There are lots of factors that drive food prices up already, without this law in existance; why don't we pass a law that has a real affect in improving the food processing cycle in California? Additionally the 2015 start give many of these farms time to adapt to the new system and educate their staff.

As we can see from recent events, sometimes a little good government regulation can prevent much bigger problems later on.

There is now pasture raised veal which has been acknowledge by even Peta.

I hope everyone voting yes can afford the increase in pork prices!

Unfortunately bills like this are proposed by people unaware of "typical" circumstances.

You can't just think of cost. Either keeping the consumer price down of the producer price down. (not always the same as low producer price w/high consumer cost is what leads to high profit margins for the producer.

Yes it is cheaper to buy meat raised in inhumane and unclean conditions but that is ignoring the social responsibility nessecary to produce something at its true cost. A fact of economics often forgotten when applied in the real world Thats why green products are often more expensive as are fair trade items and products produced by laborers who have decent working conditions.

Negative costs that are communal and aren't being taken responsibility for - it's not my problem its the consumers because they're buying, its not my problem its the producers because they're selling it. Hence the need for regulation and culpability.