Source: www.pressherald.com - Monday, December 29, 2014
Located within 300 miles of New York, Philadelphia and Washington, Sauder’s Quality Eggs in Pennsylvania is ideally situated to serve the more than 50 million consumers in the Northeast. But some of the trucks that might have rolled out of Sauder’s Lancaster County facilities toward Manhattan are now heading about 2,000 miles west. “We’re getting lots of calls from California,” said Paul Sauder, 64, the owner, wearing a white protective suit and speaking over the din of 17,000 clucking brown hens while on a visit to a barn west of Philadelphia. “Stores are worried they won’t be able to meet demand after Jan. 1.” That’s when a California law takes effect that requires eggs sold in the nation’s most-populous state to come from farms meeting minimum living standards sought by animal-welfare groups – chiefly more space in their cages. Passed by the state’s voters in a 2008 initiative and expanded two years later, the rules have drawn a lawsuit from a half-dozen states and concern that the idea will spread to other agricultural products. Consumers may be affected too: California is the biggest egg-consuming state, importing more than 30 percent of its eggs, and its requirements affect farms across the country. Rising meat prices have made eggs a popular alternative and driven per-capita consumption to its highest level in decades. California’s law could push up grocery prices as farmers boost their use of costlier cage-free housing or
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Located within 300 miles of New York, Philadelphia and Washington, Sauder’s Quality Eggs in Pennsylvania is ideally situated to serve the more than 50 million consumers in the Northeast. But some of the trucks that might have rolled out of Sauder’s Lancaster County facilities toward Manhattan are now heading about 2,000 miles west. “We’re getting lots of calls from California,” said Paul Sauder, 64, the owner, wearing a white protective suit and speaking over the din of 17,000 clucking brown hens while on a visit to a barn west of Philadelphia. “Stores are worried they won’t be able to meet demand after Jan. 1.” That’s when a California law takes effect that requires eggs sold in the nation’s most-populous state to come from farms meeting minimum living standards sought by animal-welfare groups – chiefly more space in their cages. Passed by the state’s voters in a 2008 initiative and expanded two years later, the rules have drawn a lawsuit from a half-dozen states and concern that the idea will spread to other agricultural products. Consumers may be affected too: California is the biggest egg-consuming state, importing more than 30 percent of its eggs, and its requirements affect farms across the country. Rising meat prices have made eggs a popular alternative and driven per-capita consumption to its highest level in decades. California’s law could push up grocery prices as farmers boost their use of costlier cage-free housing or
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