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Humane Farming Association Launches Campaign to Defeat Rotten Egg Bills in Massachusetts

Humane Farming Association Launches Campaign to Defeat Rotten Egg Bills in Massachusetts Proposed Legislation Would Repeal Voter-Enacted Standard for Egg-Laying Hens News provided by Share this article Share this article BOSTON, May 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The Humane Farming Association (HFA) today announced the launch of its Stop the Rotten Egg Bills campaign to sound an alarm about proposed legislation that would repeal an animal-care standard approved by an overwhelming 78% of Massachusetts voters. The public-education campaign includes a website, StopTheRottenEggBill.org, and the placement of full-page advertisements in Massachusetts news outlets. In 2016, Massachusetts voters approved Question 3, a ballot measure which requires that egg-laying hens each be provided no less than 1.5 square feet of floor space. The law is scheduled to go into effect this coming January. However, if proposed legislation (House bill 864 and Senate bill 36) passes, the egg industry would

Egg prices, supply may ride on voter law changes

By State House News Service A collection of animal rights organizations and commercial egg farmers, once opponents, are joining forces to urge prompt reform of the state s cage-free standards law before it takes effect in January while warning of price spikes on the horizon. In the five years since Massachusetts voters overwhelmingly approved a ballot question setting minimum standards for how farm owners house certain animals, several other states have established cage-free regulations with different space requirements than the Bay State. Industry representatives and several animal welfare groups, including those that ran competing campaigns ahead of the ballot question s passage, on Tuesday urged lawmakers to intervene and reform the hen-specific standards enacted by the ballot question to mirror the more common practices elsewhere that have already been embraced by producers.

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