Animal rights comes to ‘America’s Provence’ and farmers are worried

Animals lives are their right

End animal agriculture subsidies.

The government is taking my money and using it to support an industry that I am personally against.

Supporters of Measure J would force at least two dozen Sonoma County poultry and livestock operations to either downsize or shut down within three years. Farmers say it is an effort to push a “vegan mandate” to end animal farming and that the initiative would close more farms and have spinoff economic effects, both immediately and in the future.

For those who do eat eggs, should this Measure J pass, I imagine California egg prices will increase.

“At the end of the day, they want to burn down our farm and every other farm in Sonoma County,” said Weber, whose family has produced eggs in the area since 1912.

If the family is truly "producing" the eggs, then they won't need the chickens anyway.

I hope this ballot measure passes.