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Many of the country's largest conventional egg farmers have already diversified their operations to include some cage free phentermine cod accepted. But the Humane Society's proposal in California and the fear that similar regulations will follow elsewhere in the country has scrambled the nation's $6 billion egg industry. Farmers, including many already deep into the cage free business, say a ban on cages would run many of them out of business, drive up prices and restrict consumer choice. What's more, they say, banning cages wouldn't do much to improve the lot of California's 19 million laying hens. In a rare move for an industry in which each visitor to a chicken house raises the chances of a ruinous disease outbreak, some farmers have opened their phentermine cod accepted to reporters, an effort to demonstrate that while a caged life may not give a hen everything she wants, she's likely to be cleaner and healthier than her average cage free counterpart. Some animal welfare experts say they have a point. "When you give a hen some of these behavioral freedoms, you increase health risks," said Joy Mench, a University of California, Davis, professor who has worked with both the Humane Society and mainstream egg producers to craft welfare standards for caged and cage free hens. In the cage free systems, perhaps 30,000 chickens live together in huge phentermine cod accepted, each with about 2 square feet of floor space. They get nesting spots, perches and loose material to scratch around in, but typically have no access to the out of doors (unlike the hens that lay certified organic and free range eggs). Europe's continent wide experience in converting to cage free egg production has already yielded thousands of pages of studies comparing the two systems, Mench said. Two key results: • During their roughly two year laying life, cage free hens die at more than twice the rate of caged hens, likely the result of increased exposure to one another, and to their own manure. • Cage free hens suffer high rates of broken bones 67 percent in one survey. Most modern laying hens suffer from osteoporosis, Mench said, and they're easily injured while jumping around a cage free barn. On the other hand, she noted, workers often inadvertently break the bones of caged birds as they are removed before being euthanized. The Humane Society's Shapiro agreed that cage free systems are far from perfect. But, he said, while birds in a cage free barn may face a higher risk of disease or death, the alternative life in a cage guarantees suffering. Continue reading on next page About the writer: Call The Bee's Jim Downing, (916) 321 1065. ... phentermine cod accepted