I think that's the major problem here. We have a lot of misrepresented information and knee jerk reactions going around that are getting people into emotional responses. It sounds like this bill will not even effect chickens, and yet the original poster has chickens right in the title of this...
From what I've been reading in the thread, it looks like they want go after the battery farming of pet-style birds (parakeets, ect) and this won't effect food-style birds (chickens, quail, ect). And, quite frankly, I agree with the movement. Thinking back to my childhood, I knew too many people...