Comments on: Vote! Yes on Prop 2 http://greenlagirl.com/vote-yes-on-prop-2/ Urban environmental lifestyle blog in Los Angeles Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:11:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Siel http://greenlagirl.com/vote-yes-on-prop-2/comment-page-1/#comment-379518 Siel Tue, 04 Nov 2008 05:34:44 +0000 http://greenlagirl.com/?p=4642#comment-379518 Thanks for the links, Kevin. What's been interesting in the Prop 2 debate is that pretty much everyone, both pro and against, seems to agree that industrial chicken farming is disgusting and gross -- Thanks for the links, Kevin. What’s been interesting in the Prop 2 debate is that pretty much everyone, both pro and against, seems to agree that industrial chicken farming is disgusting and gross –

]]> By: Kevin http://greenlagirl.com/vote-yes-on-prop-2/comment-page-1/#comment-376969 Kevin Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:43:35 +0000 http://greenlagirl.com/?p=4642#comment-376969 There was a really good letter to the editor in Saturday's paper refuting some of the points in George Skelton's editorial. Jason Brancazio commented: By endorsing cage-free eggs at the end of his column, George Skelton implies that he finds industrial chicken-farming practices abhorrent. I disagree, however, with his counter-assertion that the marketplace is an appropriate arbiter of ethical issues. Would the marketplace ever have eradicated slavery? When business losses are at stake, and when our legislators rely on businesses for campaign funding, only the ballot initiative process will allow a motivated minority to raise questions that merit statewide consideration. I wrote a full post about it yesterday: http://blog.thevegancollection.com/2008/10/prop-2-ruffled-feathers-in-the-la-times/ There was a really good letter to the editor in Saturday’s paper refuting some of the points in George Skelton’s editorial. Jason Brancazio commented:

By endorsing cage-free eggs at the end of his column, George Skelton implies that he finds industrial chicken-farming practices abhorrent. I disagree, however, with his counter-assertion that the marketplace is an appropriate arbiter of ethical issues. Would the marketplace ever have eradicated slavery?

When business losses are at stake, and when our legislators rely on businesses for campaign funding, only the ballot initiative process will allow a motivated minority to raise questions that merit statewide consideration.

I wrote a full post about it yesterday:

http://blog.thevegancollection.com/2008/10/prop-2-ruffled-feathers-in-the-la-times/

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