Fwd: LA TIMES: Farmed animal confinement bill withdrawn

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In a message dated 5/2/2003 1:40:19 PM Pacific Standard Time,

KarenDawn writes:

 

> (The Los Angeles Times takes letters at: letters )

>

> Los Angeles Times

>

> May 2, 2003 Friday Home Edition

>

> California Metro; Part 2; Page 12; Metro Desk

> The State;

> IN BRIEF / SACRAMENTO;

> Bill to Ease Life for Sows, Calves Is Withdrawn

>

> From Staff and Wire Reports

>

>

> A state bill that would have prohibited the confinement of calves and

> pregnant sows in cramped crates was withdrawn Thursday before facing the

> Assembly's Agriculture Committee.

>

> A staff member for Assemblywoman Loni Hancock (D-Berkeley), who wrote the

> bill, said she did not have the votes for approval. Given the state's

> pressing budget crisis, Hancock decided the bill might not be given

> adequate

> attention. She plans to reintroduce it next year.

>

> The measure's sponsor, an animal-rights group called Farm Sanctuary, plans

> to continue to support the bill.

>

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