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Trump Administration Moves To Kill Rules For Organic Eggs
While Trump campaigned to "drain the swamp," in practice he's done the opposite, filling his administration with people who hate the existence of the department they run. They are the swamp.
Republicans have managed to make the word "regulation" into a dirty one. Regulations are rules meant to protect us, in some cases the most vulnerable of us. They are made by a government that we elect to work FOR US. Yet Trump's swamp is working, mostly in quiet, to eliminate as many rules as possible at the behest of their corporate overlords.
The Trump administration has announced plans to withdraw a regulation that would have required organic egg producers to give their hens room to graze outdoors.
Even chickens can not escape the cruelty of Trump.
Current organic rules require animals to have "access" to the outdoors. The largest egg producers, however, have built chicken houses that hold tens of thousands of hens, and the hens have access to the outdoors only through small enclosed "porches." Under the new rules, finalized at the end of the Obama administration, these porches would no longer be adequate.... in this case the demand for regulation is coming from the very organic farmers who would need to meet those new rules. But those farmers say those rules are needed to maintain a level playing field in the organic industry.
The Organic Trade Association, which represents organic food companies, condemned the move and says it will try to reverse it in court.