Baylen Linnekin on Cracking California’s Egg Law

Last week a federal court in California threw out
a multi-state lawsuit challenging California’s looming egg
production rules. Earlier this year, attorneys general in six
states challenged the California rules, which apply to farmers in
other states, including theirs.

The lawsuit, as Food Safety News puts
it, “argued that California was not acting to make food safer
nor animals healthier, but to advance its own purely commercial
interests.”

Specifically, the California law, set to take effect next year,
would require egg producers within and without the state to house
egg-laying hens in cages or other enclosures that permit the hens
to stand, lay down, turn around and fully extending their
wings.

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