Amon Baer, one of 34 members of the United Egg Producers board, the political arm of the egg industry, voted against every resolution in a deal brokered with the Humane Society of the United States. If Congress knuckles under and dictates egg laying cage sizes in the coming farm bill, it will destroy smaller egg producing farms, raise the cost of food and limit consumer choices in the marketplace, he says. (Mikkel Pates, Agweek)
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