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22 Hastings Women's L.J. 317 (2011)
Taking (Live)Stock of Animal Welfare in Agriculture: Comparing Two Ballot Initiatives

handle is hein.journals/haswo22 and id is 327 raw text is: Taking (Live)Stock of Animal Welfare in Agriculture: Comparing Two Ballot Initiatives Neil Thapar* I. PROP 2 AND ISSUE 2: WHAT DID THEY DO? On November 4, 2008, California voters passed Proposition 2 with 63.5% of the vote. Proposition 2 (Prop 2), a historic ballot initiative, prescribed for the first time in state history, statewide standards of care for livestock.' Within a year, on November 3, 2009, Ohio voters passed Issue 2, another historic ballot initiative. Issue 2 amended the Ohio state constitution and delegated the task of creating substantive standards of care for the state's livestock to a Livestock Care Standards Board. Although both initiatives relate to the welfare of animals in agriculture, and both passed by an overwhelming majority, the similarities end there. While other states have addressed animal welfare issues in agriculture, California and Ohio are far more significant producers of animals for food than any of those states, signaling the bona fide entrance of animal welfare into the mainstream of American agricultural politics.2 California's Prop 2 amended the California Health and Safety Code to prohibit confining any covered animal3 for all or the majority of any day, in a manner that prevents it from lying down, standing up, fully * Notes Editor, Hastings Women's Law Journal, 2010-11; J.D. Candidate, 2011, University of California, Hastings College of the Law; B.A., 2007, University of California, Los Angeles. The author would like to thank the Hastings Women's Law Journal for its commitment to publishing this Note. He offers his gratitude to David Nims, Katy Edwards, Leeja Patel, Aishlin Hicks, Erin Emmer, and Caitlin Tallon for their dedication and continued effort during the editing process. 1. November 4, 2008 General Election Supplement to the Statement of Vote - Statewide Summary by County for State Ballot Measures, CAL. SEC'Y ST., http://www.sos.ca.gov/electi ons/sov/2008 generall (follow Statewide Summary Propositions hyperlink under Statewide Measures heading) (last visited Mar. 8, 2011). 2. California is the largest dairy producer, seventh-largest beef cattle producer, and seventh-largest poultry and eggs producer in the United States. See USDA, NASS, 2007 Census ofAgriculture State Profile, available at http://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics by State/AgOverview/AgOverview CA.pdf; Ohio is the second-largest egg producer, ninth- largest pork producer by weight, and eleventh-largest milk producer in the United States, see USDA, NASS, Ohio Agriculture: A Profile, available at http://www.nass.usda.gov/ Statistics byState/Ohio/Publications/PROO7.pdf. 3. A covered animal is any pig during pregnancy, calf raised for veal, or egg-laying hen who is kept on a farm. CAL. HEALTH & SAFETY CODE § 25991(b) (West 2006). HASTINGS WOMEN'S LAW JOURNAL I 317

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