California taking on the cost of change

[seedcorn]

Interesting article that they want to ban cage layers due to the inhumanity but yet don't because of cost and other problems that will arise.

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-olmstead5-2008jul05,0,479684.story

 

[Rosalind]

I wish they would put an actual analysis of the cost. Like, how many $$ are currently being spent to deal with pollution cleanup, waterway contamination, etc. and whether that comes out of tax money or however it's paid for, vs. how much $$ the regulation would cost the producers and cause the price of eggs/chicken to go up. If you're paying, say, $50 more in taxes per year to deal with the pollution and so forth that the bill will stop, vs. paying $0.25/doz. more for eggs, then people can have a better idea of whether or not the legislation is worth passing--I mean, you can choose whether or not to buy eggs, but you can't say, "I'm not paying $50 extra in taxes to clean up the waterways and pay for curing people's Salmonella/E. coli infections because McChicken, Inc. polluted the drinking water and food--send the bill to McChicken, Inc.!"

Also makes a good point about how the producers will just move to Mexico. I really hate NAFTA. It was a crummy idea.