{"id":136,"date":"2018-09-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/calchurches.planetpov.com\/impact\/index.php\/2018\/09\/26\/proposition-12-establishes-new-standards-for-confinement-of-certain-farm-animals-bans-sale-of-certain-non-complying-products-initiative-statute-recommendation-oppose\/"},"modified":"2018-09-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T00:00:00","slug":"proposition-12-establishes-new-standards-for-confinement-of-certain-farm-animals-bans-sale-of-certain-non-complying-products-initiative-statute-recommendation-oppose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/2018\/09\/26\/proposition-12-establishes-new-standards-for-confinement-of-certain-farm-animals-bans-sale-of-certain-non-complying-products-initiative-statute-recommendation-oppose\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposition 12:\u00a0\u00a0Establishes New Standards for Confinement of Certain Farm Animals; Bans Sale of Certain Non-Complying Products. Initiative Statute.\u00a0Recommendation:\u00a0\u00a0OPPOSE"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In 2008 California Council of Churches IMPACT supported Proposition 2 that would improve the quality of confinement for farm animals.\u00a0\u00a0Federal standards and legal findings affected most animals but not chickens.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>
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Our concern for the humane treatment of chickens rested on two issues: chickens are aggressive toward one another and will kill or maim one another when overcrowded. Highly crowded cages made attacks commonplace. This led to the egg industry\u2019s practice of debeaking \u2013 cutting part of the beaks off \u2013 to prevent chickens from seriously harming one another.<\/strong>
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Proposition 2 called for changes in cage sizes that would stop over crowding and thereby reduce the need for debeaking. Space requirements for each chicken ere based on animal behavior: be able to spread wings, turn around, lie down all without interfering with other chickens, set a decent standard of care.<\/strong>
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Proposition 12 reverses that legal standard.\u00a0\u00a0While it calls for \u201ccage free\u201d as a goal, it permits vastly reduced space per chicken and still does not outlaw debeaking and other inhumane practices. Rather than basing the standard on chicken behavior, it requires 1 foot square of space per bird, far too small a space even in \u201ccage free\u201d settings.\u00a0\u00a0This is a setback in the humane treatment of chickens<\/strong>
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As in the earlier Proposition 2, standards for other farm animals is not seriously at issue in Prop 12.\u00a0\u00a0To regress on the standards for chickens and undermine what we already passed in compassion is totally unacceptable.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>
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