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Alabama's A.G. joins lawsuit against California
 
MONTGOMERY, AL (WSFA) -

Alabama's Attorney General Luther Strange has now joined a lawsuit to stop California from imposing laws on Alabama, and other states, regarding the way eggs are produced.

A.G. Strange joined the lawsuit on Wednesday in order to prevent the California law, which requires that eggs sold in stores may only come from chickens that live in larger-than-normal cages, from going into effect. Alabama is one of the top 15 largest egg producers in the United States, producing a total of 2.13 million eggs in 2012 according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Many of these eggs are sold in other states, including California.

"In Alabama, consumers are free to make their own choice of which eggs to buy at their grocery stores, and it is preposterous and quite simply wrong for California to tell Alabama how we must produce eggs," Strange said. "This is not an animal-welfare issue; it is about California's attempt to protect its economy from its own job-killing laws by extending those laws to everyone else in the country."

Voters in California passed a proposition, in 2008, that requires its own egg producers provide either free ranges or larger cages for hens. After egg producers stated that this would put them in an economic disadvantage with other states, California added in provisions that extended the mandate to any eggs imported from other states to be sold in California.

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