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Egg Fight Breaks Out Over Chicken Welfare Law
TRACIE CONE
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — By one of the biggest margins in California's rich initiative history, voters decreed last year that egg-laying hens must be able to stretch their wings without touching another bird or a cage wall.
But the details of the new animal welfare law are bedeviling egg farmers.
Some are even rumored to be breeding hens with shorter wings, a tactic producers deny with a laugh. ...
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