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Marilyn Hall Patel, a U.S. District Judge in San Francisco, prohibited the American Egg Board (AEB) from spending $3 million in federal advertising dollars to put a stop to Proposition 2, a November ballot initiative that will give more humane treatment to farm animals (basically, it will let them move freely, be able to extend their legs in cages). The AEB is "funded by a national legislative checkoff" and "the board is appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture," according to its website. With that said, Judge Patel ruled against the Egg Board because it violates federal law for them to spend funds " "for the purpose of influencing governmental policy or action."
Judge Stops Government from Fighting Prop 2
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Begley is a raving nutball and he is dead wrong. StrokerMcgurk
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... I agree with Judge Patel, farm animals taste much better if they've spent their lives exercising and walking around cages, as opposed to just sitting there being lazy. Lazy chickens just don't taste as good.
I don't eat animals, but if they are going to be raised for eating or laying eggs, I think they deserve to live their lives with some movement. Imagine spending your whole life stuck in coach on an airplane that never turns off the seat belt light.
Do you mean sitting in Coach in the late 90s, or sitting there in 2008, where you have to pay for your own blanket and pillow and there is no inflight movie. If it's the latter, I totally get what you're saying. That's just cruel.
Glad to hear the judge ruled against spending taxpayer dollars for campaigning.