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Well if luck befalls you and you get elected it might help when eggs prices skyrocket to be able to explain how/why the price got there.

If the current twenty percent of eggs being raised cage free right now by the biggest producers aren't being sold what is Michigan going to do when all it's eggs are cage free and no other state is allowed to import non cage free eggs? There are only two other states right now mandating cage free eggs...and California has let up on some of it's regulations because producers can't sell the pricier eggs. I don't know how many producers here export eggs to other countries but if the largest exporter of eggs world wide can't sell them to other countries where would that leave any producers here that may export eggs?...buyers are just going to get their eggs from states without cage free mandates. It's one thing to want to jump the gun but it's a whole other issue when it's going to leave them with egg all over there faces (so to speak) in trying to explain why this wasn't thought out more.

I do expect the state to get hit with lawsuits of impeding interstate commerce...that's sort of a no brainer. Just as I expect if this is left to stand they are going to have a lot of angry constituents once egg prices start to soar calling up legislators and demanding answers.

Before they took these steps they should have done some research/polling asking people if they were in favor of cage free chickens and if so would they be willing to pay up to ninety percent more for eggs? At a minimum they should have looked at current selling trends of cage free eggs before driving so deeply into this.

A lot of times in situations like this it comes down to do as I say not as I do. We see that quite often with the climate change enthusiast. They want to harp we should be better stewards of the earth without giving any recognition to the fact that we've done quite a bit in comparison to other countries...often at an economic disadvantage...but then they don't want to stop buying cheap made products from some of the worst polluters in the world.

When it comes to the economic disadvantaged who are just plain hungry they don't give a care about what kind of life the chicken led they just know eggs were cheap. I can attest to that myself personally from a story when I was younger living on my own. I often relied on eggs as I could get a loaf of bread and a dozen eggs that'd provide some protein in my diet six days a week while surviving off them and stuff out of my garden. I'd feed my cat by going on what we call lookout park hill and scrounge for beer bottles to return people would throw out over the edge of the hill so they wouldn't have empty open containers in their cars. I survived on eggs, tuna, stuff from my garden, the good graces of a couple neighbors, one who'd invite me over a couple times a week and another who had what they called open Sunday dinner for anyone in the neighborhood that wanted to drop by. When my kids were teenagers and had friends who parents kicked them out of the house or left home for various reasons and were struggling like I did when I was their age I adopted the format of always having something on the stove for anyone who needed it...I surely appreciated it back in the day. I was so hungry at times I remember once visiting a friend and she was going to throw out some goulash and I screamed no...sort of lost a bit of control there...lol. The moral of the story is when people are hungry they don't care what kind of lifestyle the chicken is leading.

Then....there's always more, lol., in comparison to what other inhumanities perpetrated upon other animals?....like when my kids dad worked at Herruds, the hot dog manufacturer. The things he described they put in hot dogs I couldn't eat hot dogs for years....not until after I went to a company who processed turkeys on a recycling venture for my current employer who I was on the start up of their recycling project. We went there to view their recycling operation. In the process I saw how Turkeys are taken out of cages and hung upset down by their feet on a conveyor line...there they flung back and forth before and after their heads were cut off by large whirling cutters as they moved down the line. I remember uttering to myself "I guess I can eat hot dogs again", hot dogs didn't sound so bad after that. lol. Though I test the hog dogs I eat, if I hold it up horizontally and it goes limp that's a sign it has a lot of fillers in it, if it stays firm in place it's made with more meat product then fillers.