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Article: Activists move in on California ballot.(News)(Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act)(Humane Society of the United States)
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- Feedstuffs
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- October 8, 2007
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Key Points
* Act would create "basic protections" in animal housing.
* Campaign called misleading.
FARM Sanctuary and the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) began collecting signatures in California last week to place an initiative on the California election ballot next year that would ban cage-egg production and the use of sow and veal stalls.
The two groups are leading a broad coalition of animal activist groups, veterinarians, environmentalists and food safety specialists organized as Californians for Humane Farms. They need to collect 650,000 signatures to place the initiative, the Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act, on ...