Vote Yes on Proposition 2

[Barnyard Dawg]

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Still need to hire people to collect eggs, that costs more than machines.

Need to make safe fences and protect from preds and deal with not being able to keep the place biosecure. Losses from preds, upkeep of bigger areas = more money. Lose flock to disease from one bird dropping or a wild animal kills them = more loss. Houses were made in the first place to keep them safe, it has just gotten farther than first imagined when it was first implemented. We can't kill all the preds or remove migratory birds from free ranging flocks.

Feed will probably be more. Birds in any sort of run at any economical concentration = decimate the veggitation. Free range = expend more energy to keep warm/ keep cool. It may go down in a personal backyard, but look at our average cost per dozen eggs. My eggs raw cost are about 3 a dozen. Add shipping, man power, and so on... that's a lot of money for the majority of people to pay for eggs.

Maybe people should stop eating eggs, eat their junk food, ice cream, cookies, sodas, processed foods, fast foods, why pay those high prices give me a break we are a nation of overweight individuals only in America.

 

[Colored Egg Farmer]

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Still need to hire people to collect eggs, that costs more than machines.

Need to make safe fences and protect from preds and deal with not being able to keep the place biosecure. Losses from preds, upkeep of bigger areas = more money. Lose flock to disease from one bird dropping or a wild animal kills them = more loss. Houses were made in the first place to keep them safe, it has just gotten farther than first imagined when it was first implemented. We can't kill all the preds or remove migratory birds from free ranging flocks.

Feed will probably be more. Birds in any sort of run at any economical concentration = decimate the veggitation. Free range = expend more energy to keep warm/ keep cool. It may go down in a personal backyard, but look at our average cost per dozen eggs. My eggs raw cost are about 3 a dozen. Add shipping, man power, and so on... that's a lot of money for the majority of people to pay for eggs.

You are definatly correct on the feed being more! like 100 dollers a ton more due to they burn more energy running around. The man power part is a little wrong there are automatic egg systems now for both outside and cage free farms. But this equipment is still more expensive and you have less birds so that is another reason for higher prices.

 

[bluey]

I'm going to vote "present"...

 

[Birdman18]

Well i just wanted to thank everyone for posting great sugestions and information about this topic. Lets just hope that both sides of the story get justice, now go vote i believe it ends soon after november.

 

[Foxhound lady]

My economic professor always said the dollar speaks louder than a voice.

If we could educate the majoritry of america about the differences between cage-free/organic/free-roaming eggs versus conventional egg production then the demand for the free range/cage-free would rise.

Right now less than 5% of the population eats free-range/cage free eggs. We' have 95% more of the population to go. Also less then 20% of the population eats organic foods

 

[silkiechicken]

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The people who can afford the junk food, ice cream, cookies and sodas can probably afford to buy more expensive eggs. It's the ones who can barely afford bread and rice and think a burger is a luxury.

 

[Barnyard Dawg]

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The people who can afford the junk food, ice cream, cookies and sodas can probably afford to buy more expensive eggs. It's the ones who can barely afford bread and rice and think a burger is a luxury.

I think there are enough give away programs to help the truely needy.

 

[Barnyard Dawg]

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The people who can afford the junk food, ice cream, cookies and sodas can probably afford to buy more expensive eggs. It's the ones who can barely afford bread and rice and think a burger is a luxury.

I think there are enough give away programs to help the truely needy.

Burgers are not a luxury for me, I haven't had one in years there on the bottom of the food link as far as I am concerned.

 

[silkiechicken]

There are, and sometimes I think that give away programs are great for the short run, but then people get dependent on it and what happens then? Regardless of just poor people, I don't think prop 2 is a good idea.

 

[Barnyard Dawg]

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I do, maybe that is why voting is one of the most important rights we have, because we all have opinions and they should be respected and we should be able to decide for ourselves without interference from others. I realize there are many on this post with lots of knowledge and experience in this matter but some have to go on our gut feelings on what we think is right even though there will be consequences and inconviences for those in the commerical industry.