Originally Posted by
gfunkdave
Unfortunately this is the standard in industrial farming, which produces most of the meat we eat. It’s probably the main reason I say I’m trying to limit how much meat I eat. But of course it’s this industrialized efficiency that provides meat at a price most people can afford, so it’s a double edged sword. Of course, there is the argument that we in the industrialized world eat too much meat as it is, and should cut down so if it were more expensive it wouldn’t be a bad thing.
California voters overwhelmingly passed an
initiative three years ago that established minimum space requirements for calves, pigs and egg-laying hens and bans the sale of meat and eggs from animals which were confined to spaces below the minimum. That ban also applies to meat and eggs produced outside California.