Comments on: Should chickens get more space? http://collegian.csufresno.edu/2008/10/27/should-chickens-get-more-space/ Serving California State University, Fresno since 1922. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:24:06 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: anonymous http://collegian.csufresno.edu/2008/10/27/should-chickens-get-more-space/comment-page-1/#comment-33141 anonymous Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:19:52 +0000 http://collegian.csufresno.edu/?p=6707#comment-33141 If you do some research on the issue, you may learn a lot. Try looking up animal behaviors of those involved, health issues for the humans and for the birds, and the number of veal operations in CA, maybe you will change your mind. If you do some research on the issue, you may learn a lot. Try looking up animal behaviors of those involved, health issues for the humans and for the birds, and the number of veal operations in CA, maybe you will change your mind.

]]> By: Mark Hawthorne http://collegian.csufresno.edu/2008/10/27/should-chickens-get-more-space/comment-page-1/#comment-33003 Mark Hawthorne Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:23:45 +0000 http://collegian.csufresno.edu/?p=6707#comment-33003 You’re right, Jakob: Prop 2 won’t mean the end to the suffering of farmed animals. But it will do a lot to redress the increasingly egregious privations that factory farmers have subjected upon these animals. Those of us in California who support Prop 2 believe it is torture to cram hens into grim wire cages with six or more other birds, leaving each hen less room than a sheet of letter-sized paper on which to live. That’s not even enough room to spread a single wing. Such confinement is cruel to animals and it jeopardizes human health. Prop 2 is a modest measure that will hold corporate agriculture to basic standards of humanity by allowing egg-laying hens, pregnant sows and veal calves to fully extend their limbs and turn around. To learn more about this ballot initiative, please visit www.YesOnProp2.org. You’re right, Jakob: Prop 2 won’t mean the end to the suffering of farmed animals. But it will do a lot to redress the increasingly egregious privations that factory farmers have subjected upon these animals. Those of us in California who support Prop 2 believe it is torture to cram hens into grim wire cages with six or more other birds, leaving each hen less room than a sheet of letter-sized paper on which to live. That’s not even enough room to spread a single wing. Such confinement is cruel to animals and it jeopardizes human health.

Prop 2 is a modest measure that will hold corporate agriculture to basic standards of humanity by allowing egg-laying hens, pregnant sows and veal calves to fully extend their limbs and turn around. To learn more about this ballot initiative, please visit http://www.YesOnProp2.org.

]]> By: gm http://collegian.csufresno.edu/2008/10/27/should-chickens-get-more-space/comment-page-1/#comment-32963 gm Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:59:42 +0000 http://collegian.csufresno.edu/?p=6707#comment-32963 An excellent piece that laid out the 2 sides of the issue. Too often both sides on this proposition have oversimplified the issue as simply being one of treating animals better vs. money. As we can see from this article it is a more complicated topic than that and deserves deeper thought and analysis on the part of the voters. Great article. An excellent piece that laid out the 2 sides of the issue. Too often both sides on this proposition have oversimplified the issue as simply being one of treating animals better vs. money. As we can see from this article it is a more complicated topic than that and deserves deeper thought and analysis on the part of the voters. Great article.

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