The Ballot Measures: Prop 2

Over the next couple weeks, we at Skynet will be bringing you our suggestions regarding the 12 ballot measures that qualified for the November 4th election.

Prop 2 - STANDARDS FOR CONFINING FARM ANIMALS

Vote: YES

Prop 2 is common decency and to be perfectly honest, I don't really want to know anyone who would vote against this measure. It calls for veal calves, egg-laying hens, and pregnant pigs to "be confined only in ways that allow these animals to lie down, stand up, fully extend their limbs and turn around freely." A diabolical socialist plot if I've ever heard one...

I am a meat eater and am not trying to convert anyone to vegetarianism, but there is no reason imaginable to make these creatures' lives a living hell. Raising an animal for food and treating it humanely are not mutually exclusive ideas.