Senate Rejects Feinstein's Egg Bill -- SAN FRANCISCO, June 19, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewsw... - 0 views
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"The egg industry is seeking to establish egg factory cages as a national standard that could never be challenged or changed by state law or public vote,"
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"The Rotten Egg Bill would be disastrous for laying hens who would be forever locked in cages — as well as for millions of voters whose rights would be traded away," said Miller
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S. 3239 and H.R. 3798 would codify a controversial deal between the United Egg Producers (UEP) — the egg industry trade association recently sued for an alleged price-fixing scheme — and the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), which is now endorsing the same egg factory cages it had long opposed.
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