Saginaw Bay Area - Michigan | BruceV - 12/23/2024 12:46
Is this pushed by the government or the consumer? (Replying to 2 TrakP: We can thank our full D govt for this brilliance and many other schemes put in. Can only hope sense comes back to the majority and we get a full R set at top to start undoing at least some of this foolishness.)
I was mistaken, this legislation was actually put forth by an R senator (referring to the law in MI that is now going into effect from 5 years ago, specifically PA132 of 2019). However, the draft bill he submitted had nothing in it about cage-free. That was added in as the bill progressed through committees. MI currently has D for both houses and gov and this was touted as a "new" law, I had presumed it was new and done by the Ds in charge. It was actually 5 years old and just now going into effect, presumably with the 5 year lead for producers to implement any necessary compliance items. The bill was originally put forth by an R but I don't know if R or D added the cage-free piece.
To your question of was it from the people or from the govt, since it was not in the original legislation, I'd say it was a govt add-in. Did they know about the consumer harm (cost) at the time or that it wouldn't apply to facilities with 3000 or less birds or that the associated rules actually won't make these the warm and fuzzy places they think "cage free" means for large operations? I doubt it, I suspect it was warm and fuzzy and that's enough for them. Think of the children! |
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