A new analysis shows California’s animal confinement standards – which require increased space for egg-laying hens – have raised the price of eggs in that state, higher than what they would have been without the law. Professor Jayson Lusk, head of Purdue University’s Department of Animal Economics, was involved in analyzing the data, “What we found is they caused a pretty dramatic increase in prices, almost immediately after the law went in place.
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