1.0 link 138571 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/28/vegans-and-meat-eaters-un_n_138571.html Proposition 2, a sweeping California ballot initiative designed to improve the treatment that farm animals receive, will be decided by voters on November 4th. The proposition, co-sponsored by the Humane Society and Farm Sanctuary, the biggest farm-animal-rights group in the United States, requires that by 2015 farm animals be able to stand up, lie down, turn around and fully extend their limbs. If passed, the measure would ban the two-foot-wide crates that regularly confine pregnant pigs and calves raised for...

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