SAN DIEGO – With egg prices skyrocketing, San Diegans began searching elsewhere for their poultry-laid products.
Alternative means to procuring eggs might include setting up a personal chicken coup or going across the border for a month’s worth of cartons. Spikes in both live chicken purchases and egg confiscations at the US-Mexico border show that San Diegans are scrambling to avoid egg prices. The bird flu is one reason for the supply shortage, which has resulted in price hikes, but that is not the whole story. KUSI’s Dan Plante points out that the voter approved Proposition 12, has resulted in egg farmers closing down for good.
As of January 2022, all eggs must come from range free chickens, forcing egg farmers to spends lots of money converting their operations to comply.
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This is absolutely BS! I've had chickens for many years and 'free range' is extremely dangerous to chickens. There are many predators, ranging from skunks, to hawks, to coyotes that love to eat unprotected, free-range chickens.
If you idiots in CA want to destroy your state go right ahead. But please don’t come up to Seattle after you fuck everything up down there. Even your liberal/leftist politics are too much for us here in Seattle. You people are nuts
Another example of California not requiring voters to have brains. They are constantly creating problems and making it out to be everyone else’s fault. Does San Fran even have any pharmacies left? Org retail theft right in front of their faces but nothing but denial. Typical
CA fuckin up the world. 🤦♀️
We voted for this consciously. I would again. We can afford our food animals a decent life before they are sacrificed. It’s the right thing to do.
This is a lie.
Range free are exposed to bird flu. How stupid is that?
Prop 12 h as d a very small impact on egg prices, the crisis is because of an illness 'bird flu' and the cold weather chicken lay less eggs.
California needs to be expelled from the union
No I didn't know Prop 12 passed! I don't care about free range chicken eggs! Animal rights activists are going to have us starving! EggShortage foodsecurity
Animals deserve humane treatment.
Go figure California……
KUSI-shame on you for blaming people for voting for the prevention of animal cruelty. This should be the story-Egg Producers are pocketing the money for themselves.
Again Liberals destroy everything they touch. Period!
I’m conservative and can’t stand CA or Newsom. BUT I think this is a good thing. Those animals are treated horribly.
And deeper into the toilet CA slides.
California legislators and voters have become severely crazy since I moved away in late 1999. It used to be a nice but a little weird state. Now it totally sucks. I would never go back.
It's actually more than CA who adopted the initiative (there is a national shortage with other states as well adopting cage free requirements).
MikeMcKinnonIII God forbid Californians don’t want chickens to not be forced to live in cages or crowded football field-sized coops…
I didn't vote for it.
Looks like more equity policies aren’t necessarily feeding the poor equally.
Then why are they just as expensive in Iowa?
So now they import eggs from other states and kill more businesses here. Par for the course.
What an ignorant take. Of all the horrific bills here in CA, you single out this one? Perhaps the list here might help you
This is pure wacky crap drama. Have to shut down with all that money they would save from having to buy cages. If any businesses shut down, it's because they were mismanaged in thrbfirstplace.
Lol, leave then? What happened to majority rules? What happened to respect the outcomes of elections?
Just don’t send or sell eggs in California
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That's fine. I can do with fewer eggs until they can be delivered with a bit less cruelty.
How many people/households can raise free-range chickens? Whatever Californian vote actually effects the nation as well. Why? You are now have even MORE shortage of eggs/food so the whole nation has to bring supplies to feed your state!!! Hence, shortages spread WHOLE Nation.
I think it's good animal welfare. We mostly buy free range in the UK. We are also salmonella free. We promote the welfare of the animals and we still manage.
Globalist, agenda, strong
I don't know - this rant seems a bit hyperbolic. Here's a picture of eggs on sale yesterday at the local grocery store in LA.
I’m actually not against this actually…. We should treat our livestock as humanly as possible, even if it impacts profits.
You spend your life crammed in a wire cage. Fiend.
changes implemented upon a democratic vote. what’s the groundbreaking news there?
Colorado is doing it as well. I’ve been reading reports that eggs fight Covid.coincidence? Chicken farms are burning down around the globe, purina pet feed stopped chickens from laying eggs, we’re being warned the bird flu pandemic is coming and Bill Gates has invented a fake egg
True story
It has not contributed and real farmers have been losing out to long to factory farming
Yet all ‘free-range’ means is they open the end of the barn by 1/4 the length of the building, put up some fencing and the chickens have access to sunshine and be outdoors at sometime during the day. Read the guidelines, it really is that simple. Not much to upgrade.
California shooting themselves in the foot yet again then blaming it all on capitalism and price gouging. so, the next time you Californians go to buy eggs say thank you Gavin for saving California.
California government is running them into the ground.
I bet that bill was proposed by an egg farmer who already had an established free range operation.
If you're a Californian reading this, stay the fuck out of every other state. You shit the bed, now do your own laundry.
Literal shit lava streams comes from commiefornia into the rest of the country
BINGO... natural gas, electricity, all scarcity created by legislation from people who are no longer in office and accountable.
On order to qualify one likey needs extensive permitting; initial cost, inspection, qualification, renewal. My goodness.
Well, what do you think happens to the mail chicks? They don’t need them so they are thrown into a grinder and the get ground to death. How is that for a little knowledge?
Diversity and inclusion.
It is ALWAYS the people's fault - NEVER the government...oh no. FOOLS.
They didn't have to shut down. They could've changed their factory settings years ago to stop their cruel practices but of course profits above all else.
And there you have it
Democrat voters have no clue what they’re voting for. They just vote Democrat.🙄
Part of the overall plan - Newsome is a Klaus acolyte
I don’t see a problem switching to free range chickens.🤷♀️
Eventually all the woke people will starve or sexually alter themselves out of existence. All the rest of us need to do is wait
The Democrat voters in this state never met a tax, bond or feel-good program they wouldn't vote for. The only thing I've seen them vote down in years was the millionaire's tax. Even Newsom realized that would drive business out of the state.
Colorado did as well. Not surprisingly, our Gov is from there and is one of newsomes acolytes.
That's messed up
Most drop selling to CA is a cheaper solution.
Leave it to CA and their liberal ideology!
Low information voters in CA who cannot see beyond their own noses and feelings. Less voting by those types is needed to fix things. Dems want more voting by these types. Wake up California.
They care more about chickens than babies
Send those eggs to AZ, we will take them.
Free range? That's a big deal if you have 100k chickens. They will wander around and pester the neighbors, roost in the trees and poop on your car and scratch up your yard.
CA free range food? That explains the mutated yolks I've seen lately.
Unintended consequences?
I don’t believe in anything “voted for” in California. They lead the nation in election fraud
Everything California does turns to shit.
Let’s be clear California democrat voters passed Prop 12
Just when you think California can’t do anything more stupid
ONLY free range chickens. Yes!!
Is it dumb? Its is wasteful? Will it cost more money ...Yes? Californians will vote for it.
Farmers that torture chickens dont deserve to be in business
All eggs should come from free range chickens
As if the chickens care. We need to stop anthropomorphizing animals.
I support the phasing out of battery operations. They are inhumane by definition and are incompatible with a supposedly 'evolving' species. We can do better and if eggs become expensive like in the old days, then that's the price that an 'evolving' species should not mind paying
And it seems a good many are catching fire.
Time to stop being monsters to animals
I just read Prop 12. It states that the restriction is for sales WITHIN THE STATE. If I were a chicken farmer in CA, I'd keep up the conventional production and sell exclusively to out of state clients. Nevada, Arizona, and Utah are all close by and would benefit.
Awesome!!! Vegan because I don't participate in animal cruelty
Effective January 2022? So the shortage is now 1 year later? That doesn’t add up as much of an issue. It may prevent retailers from seeking non-compliant sources outside of California, but they’d still have a shortage because the shortage is outside California too.
Not surprised. The democrats here would vote for their own execution if it was put on the ballot. CA relies on low info democrat voters to pass restrictive measures into law.
California voters always vote to fall on their swords. See the gas tax crap in 2016.
Colorado too...
Stop lying and exploiting the crazy calif voters. We don’t vote for any of this crap. They just pass it and say we voted for it . They do it because you guys always believe it.
That's complete BS. Making food shortages is part of the plan. Look over the list below and tell me all that is normal!!!
KUSI fans should be banned from voting
You mean they can't raise chickens in a sickly/abusive environment & sell their sickly eggs? I'm not sure I agree with a law for this, but eggs from these sources aren't good. Costco gets most of their eggs from China, prob other stores do as well. So I doubt this has much effect
J_GallagherAD3 From vehicle use to our kitchens (eggs) COMMIEfornia set on destroying the lives of Californians. Thanks Dictator Gavin Newsom and the Democrats.
I guess the deliberate burning down of the egg and chicken farms around the Country has nothing to do with it.
How about just cut off all shipments into California?
Of course.
We would all be happy if he and everyone At KKKUSI News would just leave California. You are not a news station.
California is nuts
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Female breeding pigs are confined in gestation crates, metal enclosures so small the pigs can’t turn around for virtually their entire lives. Most egg-laying hens are crammed into battery cages restricting them from fully opening their wings for 18 months
You don’t need to eat eggs. They are not essential to survive. Also, animals are worthy of moral consideration. The egg industry is evil and should be banned out of existence.
Gina80971023 Why are they so against eggs? What do they have that may be a problem?
The obvious irony with all of the liberal nonsense that comes out of CA legislation is it only ends up hurting the poor constituents the democratic lawmakers allegedly champion.
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More for us
Fake, phony and false elections going on in Calif controlled, strangled by Dems
that is SO Californish!
Humanity being lulled down the garden path...
Has anyone actually seen a large scale free range chicken farm? Complete savagery , they destroy each other
Did you know that KUSI is not a legitimate news source?
No, our copycat Gov.Polis had to jump on that bandwagon too, and CO eggs have to be cage-free too. Just another way for the gov't to regulate small farmers out of business.
Did you know that interfering with interstate commerce is against the law? Ohhh wait. A democrat led state allowed this. Its ok.
They are a lot more expensive!
Couldn’t they just ship them out to sane states?
Our legislature hates us. Yet we keep voting them in. Or do we?
Example 10,544 of why voters are stupid.
Colorado too…
The majority of voters have no idea what their vote actually means. Beyond frustrating!! It shouldn't be this way.
Stupid policies lead to food shortages & people going hungry, but the chickens are happy.🤡
Did YOU know this?
The cheapest eggs I can find where I live are from Costco and they are cage-free. They’re cheaper than eggs I find at Winco (my area’s Food 4 Less-like store).
TBOFCanada California is a woke climate alarmist nightmare. People with grey matter should flee.
California people suck.
We voted no on the Prop! We aren't Vegan. Don't care what color they are. Down here in Mexico they are $1.85 dozen.
After years of forcing them into smaller and smaller and closures there now forcing them to change it again…🤦🏼♀️ The changes might be for the right reasons but these changes aren’t cheap..
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” “Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.” H.L. Mencken
Yes- they banned bacon too right?
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just move out of the state
Socialist Green New Deal flawed policies at work.
Kusi proves they still believe Trump won.
The farmers just need to leave California! Like many other businesses! Let the woke elites pay for everything going forward!
I searched for a list of food processing plants that have burned down in the past year. It was well over 100. It appears that someone is attacking our food supply.
Our elections in California are fraudulent. No one votes for any of this shit.
When you care more about chicken eggs than fetuses...
Avoid California and all their taxes and gov’t. regulations.
people in this state are so woke until the prices go thru the roof and then they wonder what happened-can't fix stupid
Yeah, I saw this coming when I saw it on the ballot!
Who want to eat premature or undeveloped eggs…republicans
Of course.
Colorado passed the same nonsense. Literally turning into CA here.
GlassHalfWrong What is wrong with CA lawfakers?
Get some backyard chickens & if your city doesn’t allow it work with your city council to implement an urban agriculture resolution
EWErickson And, as you predicted, We will be made to care.
How many fake ballots did it take to pass that “law”?
Its those vegans!
God I hate this state.
Thank goodness for Fla. While California works to destroy the country from the left coast, Fla. keeps the damage in check on the right coast.
Welp, guessing it's time to stop eating eggs. It's fine, always heard they cause high cholesterol, but that could be a myth...sheesh
Another 'gift' from the former Golden state.
This seems so out of character for California.
It was on the ballot in 2018? Damn that was a while ago.
I swear California has lot their minds.
NOT true. California voted to require cage-free, not free-range; there is a difference. The results for chickens and for farmers are much different, but the ultimate consequences to the consumer are similar.
Yes. I voted for it. Been vegan 30 years and cant wait to see animal agriculture eliminated. Cruelty should be expensive.
Actually sorry you’re wrong again MAGA reporters. Hawaii has the highest prices of eggs.
California is there any hope for it, I hope so.
except CA grocers truck in eggs from other states which have had their poultry flocks reduced by the avian flu thereby reducing the supply of eggs, every state is dealing with very expensive eggs & that has little to do with cage free chickens & just simple supply & demand
California is just one stupid stage
Fk California
Only the VOTERS of Crapafornia should be paying those high prices. The price should be raised for those voters so eggs that are exported to other states are reasonably priced... Elections have consequences
Jan 2022?Then the farmers have had plenty of time to get their farming in order. Its not free-range, it's cage-free chickens. There is a difference. All eggs sold in CA, no matter where they are produced, have to be cage-free.This is a good thing & what we should be striving for.
ab5 is likely having a greater impact on the price of eggs along with disrupting everything in the farm to table supply chain.
Can we just wall off Cali and let them fend for themselves?
Oh noooo! Chickens have to be given a modicum of a decent life! The horror!
Industrial farming should not be the norm.
So people are mad we're enforcing ethical standards for our chickens? Y'all are just awful people fr
So the avian flu that’s resulted in 50 million chickens being killed worldwide especially commercial operations…? That’s what I read was the reason. That and inflation.
Get your facts straight. Cage-free means, no cage. They run around on the floor of the long barn pecking the floor . And…what is on the floor? Right , chicken poop. Free Range means they are outside running around on grass and eating bugs. Enjoy your cage free eggs!
Yup. I voted for it. Chickens don’t belong in cages.
Yea but now hens have a room with a view.
This voter didn't approve 😠
PhD's...
What does this have to do with the Border ?
We are so dumb
CA continues to vote against themselves as the masses of smart people flee so I could care less if you ever have another egg. Happy Easter dummies.
Pretty sure California *voters* didn't approve Prop 12. . .but, would absolutely believe the VOTING MACHINES did!
californian’s love to make their lives as miserable as possible
But this is a GOOD thing. This puts the Health of people before Profits. And if people just stop buying sweet baked goods which are filled with Cancer causing Poison (sugar), there will be plenty of Eggs to sell to consumers who want 3-5 eggs for Breakfast every day.
Yes. California voters drive most of the chicken farmers out of state because they demanded free range chickens. The farmers that stayed reduced their flocks. Duh! Californians shouldn’t be allowed to vote anymore. Just look a what a mess they’ve mad.
Boo hoo hoo. Stop abusing animals for profit.
Not sure this is true
Treating animals humanely is important. There. I said it. Now let’s move on to that goal. Humans are to care for God’s creatures. Not treat them cruelly. Psalm 50:10-11
Yes..it is exactly what all of us said but the AR had too much money in ads. Maybe you can do a report on what has happened to the billions we voted in for Prop 1. Cant seem to find more than where WTR resources will take grant applications for water storage.
GEMMA62711 That is what I thought but everyone keeps saying either it was bird flu or Biden. All I know is Prop 12 in California lead to me getting my own chickens in Texas.
Chinafornia at it again
Chickens and illegal aliens have more rights in California then the tax paying middle class.
Oh shoot. Jay Inslee will copy this for WA.
Good thing prices are already normalizing…
unintended consequences of a humane idea, pork prices are next
Dig more, this was a very minor loss of the overall output of eggs in the US, even if every battery cage farm was shut down in California. (Google: California percent of us eggs, percent of California that was already cage free 2021) Great way to get everyone that cares about…
Pigs& chickens have new rules,Farmer John just closed L.A operations,all due to activism...Its bad for consumers& Companies...
We are doomed in California with these Leftist in charge
Colorado did the same damn thing.
Good to know that I'm paying for chickens to be treated with kindness and not cruelty.
Strange that I don’t remember voting on this
Free-Range for mass chickens & egg production is madness. I had 30 hens & 3 roosters at the beginning of 2022. Today I have 6 hens & 2 roosters left. You just can't stop predictors from taking out your chickens. Imagine going egg hunting everyday.
Typical. All these woke ideas are great in a vacuum, but they have complex cobsequences
Yes I voted against it. But conservative voices are no longer counted in CA. We will soon be peasants
Not surprised. Back to back school bond and let’s pay for trash pickup despite already paying for it.
GavinNewsom 😡😡😡😡😡
A chicken will literally run with its head removed, but these voters were worried they were discomfited by sitting in a cage. They laid massive amount of eggs because they were satisfied.
Prius, my mechanic told me Catallactic converters thieves' favorite. Tell Hunter
Yet another bad DemoKKKrat policy (CA is a 1-party state) that hurts the people who can least afford to be hurt by more high prices.
Wow, more California freedom!
Not THIS kalifornian. Pork too. Farmer John's shut down their processing plant.
🤬🤬🤬
Because California voters done read fully what they vote on
In the short term, bad for prices. Mid to long term, great all around.
California elected Gavin, so no surprise about Prop 12.
I am ok with that.
Elections have consequences and all the people affected don’t vote and those not affected vote! We are a dumb species the internet has not made us smarter
There is a bird flu and a fire killed 100,000 chickens. But blame a voter initiative that was overwhelming approved by citizens of your state.
allways means well
mmshowalter1 And guess what happened to the hens at the shutdown places?
WTF? We did not know the side effects. Blame it on the lawyers who wrote the proposition that none of us can understand.
Chickens don’t have emotions. They are not people. They are food.
I want to add, what’s your excuse for not paying your female anchors the same pay as your male anchors? Also voters’ fault?
Typical California voter. A lot of the pain is self-induced
California voters should be banned from voting 🤦🏻♂️
Good. All beings deserve to be treated with respect.
Losuisiana has chickens 🐓 everywhere!
🤣👏🏾
Yes!! And those were the same people that voted for the gas tax 😡😡
Good! They should be free range! Chickens are the most abused farm animal. Poor humans...not!
You reap what you sow California! Guess what the chickens don't care! Happy to have our own hens.
And Newsome wants to run for president in 2024! Can you imagine what our country would look like? If you think it’s bad today under Biden, I believe it would even worse with Newsome in the WH!
So now it’s the voters’ fault?
Eggs make people gay
January 2022? So it took a year for prices to spike?
Lived in Cali 26 years. Thought I’d retire there. It turned into a total dumpster fire. Took my Cali $$$ and bought huge property in FL! Best move ever!
I’m so sorry for my San Diego and Cali friends I had to leave behind when I moved my family to FL. Move if you can peeps! Get out of there!
If says something, it's likely false.
Ok. Good. Adapt or die. Not our problem. Sorry your business can’t last without you torturing animals. 🤷♀️. We can eat other things for now. Not really a crisis tbh. Some of us can actually stop being selfish for two seconds in order to avoid the torture of animals.
People in CA have no clue what they are actually voting for, they just follow the Democrat voting mailer. They'd vote for a pile of poop if it had a D next to it.
I had no trouble finding Organic Eggs, which is what I only buy
Average viewer:
Fucking California.
Hey Atleast we know the chickens are not in a horrible environment and can produce healthier eggs for our consumption. It’s not all about profits
Right...Bird flu nationwide had nothing to do with it.
lawdawgseven CA imagine that 🙄
Next year they are adding a prop that requires all farmers MUST get a signed release-form daily from each chicken. It gives the farmer approval to take the egg.
Egg-addicted KUSI is angry about democracy. Maybe you guys should move.
I’ll eat less eggs. I’d rather know that the chickens that produced the eggs don’t have an entire life of incomprehensible suffering just for my greed and selfish desires. I’d rather be inconvenienced than have animals tortured to death for my consumption.
Did you know California elections are not secure
When is it going to be illegal to write propositions that are only meant to confuse people into thinking they are voting for something when they are not. When in reality they voting something completely different. This should be illegal, it needs to stop!
How dare Californians resort to DEMOCRACY and vote so that the eggs we eat don't come from chickens housed in tiny cages that are feces ridden, injected with hormones and antibiotics.
I voted no, so give me my cheaper eggs!
CAUndergound We have some of the least informed voters in the country.
When I think of free range I think of Super Size Me Holy Chicken
California is ruining everything let's just fence it off
Most don’t even read these prop’s.
KUSI doesn’t like democracy apparently
Good. We torture the chickens enough atleast all chickens have to be out of cages
Don’t forget we voted to keep the gas tax a few years ago. Low information voters are the absolute worst.
IrishWhiskey4Me Good job, “stage one California thinkers”
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