Like Chocolate, Eggs May Soon Be On A Severe Shortage

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21-12-2014 | 04:00
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Like Chocolate, Eggs May Soon Be On A Severe Shortage
A new regulation is set to take effect in the US state of California at the beginning of 2015 that will force hen houses to allocate more room to each egg-laying chicken.

Birds, long afforded a minimum of 432 square centimeters a piece, will now need roughly 754 square centimeters—a more than 70 percent increase—if eggs are intended to be sold in the state. That extra space won't come free of charge, a cost that will almost certainly fall on the US consumers.

Egg prices could jump by as much as 20 percent in California as a result of the new regulation, Dermot J. Hayes, an agribusiness professor at Iowa State University in Ames said.

But California's new regulations could lead to more expensive eggs nationally, too.

Nearly a third of the eggs Californians consume are laid elsewhere. And Californians consume a lot of eggs—the state is home to more than 10 percent of the country's population, and, as a result, a sizable chunk of U.S. egg consumption. The state's incapacity to meet that demand is only expected to grow more severe as a result of the new regulation.

California's new legislation, which was first approved in 2008 and applies to all eggs sold in shell, comes as a part of what appears to be a growing effort to move away from industry practices that have been accused of valuing production efficiency over animal welfare. An effort to pass a similar law nationally was proposed in 2013, but failed.


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