<p>Just four weeks before California voters went to the polls to cast their ballots on Proposition 2 - a modest initiative requiring that egg-laying hens in the state be given enough room to walk, stand and stretch their limbs - <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://norco.mercyforanimals.org/">Mercy for Animals released startling footage from inside Norco Ranch</a>, the state's largest egg producer. The video showed birds packed in cages so tightly that they could hardly move, live birds neglected on dead piles, and hens injured and trapped by cage wire.
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Prop 2 passed with overwhelming support - making California the first state in the nation to ban battery-cages.
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