No wonder Gretchen flew the coop before the signing of this law. The full implementation of the price increases to consumers will be felt towards the end of her second term (if she makes it that far) and consumers paying ninety percent more for their eggs is going to leave her scrambling for cover. People will have long forgotten it was Snyder and the legislature that implemented this law under threat from lawsuits by the National Humane Society to sue....plus Snyder always did have a penchants for wanting to get a drop on the competition nationally but ultimately that endeavor will cost Michigan consumers big time.

Two of the largest eggs producers in the country has curtailed their cage free productions because consumers aren't buying cage free eggs, there is a glut of cage free eggs on the market. So how far out on the jump Snyder thought we'd be is going to be highly questionable if two of the countries largest producers (and one of them is the largest producer in the world) can't sell cage free eggs.

Some farmers are mad because they made an exception for out of shell eggs that are sold. The price will remain lower for people/restaurants/chefs etc, who use liquid eggs over shelled eggs. Which speaking of restaurants this was also another reason Snyder went along with this....the supposed commitment of national restaurant chains to change over to cage free....but as stated above the amount of cage free eggs being sold isn't proving this to be true.

Another contentious issue is the fact that California and Massachusetts are facing lawsuits for impeding interstate commerce....so look forward to that costly endeavor of being sued. They implemented similar laws forbidding the importation into their states of any eggs that were not raised cage free.

Furthermore studies have shown that chickens raised from small cage free flocks are responsible for more of the salmonella cases reported to the FDA than chickens raised on larger caged farms. Plus there is a larger loss of chickens being raised caged free as chickens tend to be aggressive towards one another, it jumps from like four percent up to eleven percent of chickens killing each other in a cage free environment.

But that's not all the bad news involved. Worker contamination of endotoxin dust raises significantly with larger cage free chickens. Meaning their is a higher likelihood of workers lungs becoming infected from various bacterium found in the dirt of chicken housing.

As far as them signing to allow felons who remain felon free for ten years to have licenses for financial institutions would one trust the likes of Bernie Madoff to get another license after ten years of being felon free? If one's crime maybe wasn't financially related....but even then still I'd still be hesitant that an ex-felon could operate some form of a financial institution.

You have an egg-s-lent day!