A PROPOSAL TO REGULATE FARM ANIMAL CONFINEMENT IN THE UNITED STATES AND AN OVERVIEW OF CURRENT AND PROPOSED LAWSON THE SUBJECT

摘要

According to the 2007 Census of Agriculture administered by the National Agricultural Statistic Service, almost half a billion hogs are sold each year, with a yearly market value of over 18 billion dollars. Of those hogs sold, almost 98% of them comefrom farms that have over one thousand hogs. Further, there are almost 350 million laying hens in the United States, resulting in the yearly sale of almost two billion dozen eggs. Of those hens, 341 million, or 97% of the total population, live on farmswith over ten thousand hens.