USA - MI Gov. Granholm signs law living confined farm animals room
http://www.usagnet.com/story-national.php?Id=2127&yr=2009
16-Oct-2009 (16 years 7 months 23 days ago)The bill signed Monday makes Michigan the second state to ban so-called battery cages for egg-laying chickens, the fifth to ban veal crates and the seventh to ban stalls for pregnant pigs.
The cages for hens and stalls for pregnant pigs will go away in about 10 years. The crates for veal calves will be banned in three years.