A California ballot measure requiring chickens to be cage free and farmers to provide larger enclosures for other animals is raising concerns about price increases for eggs, pork, and veal.
Proposition 12, also named the Farm Animal Confinement Initiative, would mandate a minimum floor space of 43 square feet for one calf and one square foot for an egg-laying hen by 2020. In addition, it will ban cages for egg-laying hens and require each breeding pig and its offspring to have floor space of no less than 24 square feet by 2022.
