California puts chickens before poor people

But, once again, the Freedom-Haters get to congratulate themselves on how CAAAAAAARING they are - but it's for the feathered rather than the hair-covered destitute:

Thanks to California's lefty birdbrains, eggs are about to get a lot more expensive

So I'm perusing the Star-Ledger business page during lunch and what do I see? An article reprinted from Bloomberg News about an upcoming price increase for eggs. And why are a dozen eggs going to get more expensive? Well, you can thank California's birdbrain animal rights nuts for that.

Eggs are about to get more expensive, as California moves to make sure hen houses are roomy enough to allow the birds to lay down, stand up, extend their wings and dance around.

Farmers nationwide who want to continue selling to the most populous U.S. state are moving to comply with a new law, taking effect next month, that requires the larger cages. They either must build more hen houses, or house fewer birds in the ones they have, raising their costs.

Wholesale egg prices already average a record $2.27 a dozen nationally, up 34 percent from a year earlier. With the new law, the price Californians pay may jump as much as 20 percent for shell eggs in three to six months, according to Dermot J. Hayes, an agribusiness professor at Iowa State University in Ames. The rest of the country will probably follow suit, he said.

"You're going to see some really large spikes in the price of eggs in January," said Scott Ramsdell, who owns Dakota Layers LLP in Flandreau, South Dakota.

California imports more than 30 percent of its eggs from other states. A California Department of Food and Agriculture rule says that an enclosure containing nine or more hens that produce eggs sold in the state needs at least 116 square inches (748 square centimeters) of floor space for each bird, a 73 percent boost over the current standard.

Voters in California approved Proposition 2 in 2008 calling for egg-laying hens to have space to move. Subsequently, Assembly Bill 1437 was signed into law, applying to all eggs sold in the shell in the state. These rules all go into effect Jan. 1.

Dancing chickens! Because our food isn't expensive enough already, right?

Who does this idiocy hurt the most? Not the limousine liberals lounging around eating cage-free omelets, that's for sure. Poor people. Raising the price of eggs hurts poor people. 

When your ideology hinges on championing aggrieved categories of beings, you're going to run into this kind of dilemma - and, of course, the humans get tossed overboard, because the world's ills can ultimately be blamed on their very existence.