Looking at Proposition 2

At the J.S. West and Cos. poultry farm, half a million chickens are squeezed six at a time into wire cages where they must share 2 square feet of space. AP in the Daily News.

Beneath them, conveyor belts whisk away excrement while 1.2 million eggs travel from hen to carton each day without touching a human hand.

California voters will decide Nov. 4 whether this kind of operation is an example of factory farming at its most efficient - or the cruel farming practices of producers concerned only about the bottom line.