"Proposition 2, co-sponsored by the Humane Society and Farm Sanctuary, the biggest farm-animal-rights group in the United States, focuses on what are considered the worst animal-confinement systems in factory farms. The ballot initiative, which voters will decide on Nov. 4, requires that by 2015 farm animals be able to stand up, lie down, turn around and fully extend their limbs. In effect that translates into a ban on the two-foot-wide crates that tightly confine pregnant pigs and calves raised for veal — a space so small that they can’t turn around. And it would eliminate so-called battery cages where four or more hens share a space about the size of a file drawer."
 
This is so exciting!  Please read the whole article!  It looks very favorable for a passage of the Proposition and hopefully that will led to further action in other states.  According to the article, large meat producers such as Smithfield Foods are listening.  And while they say they are not bending to activist or voter pressure and simply complying with request of McDonald's and supermarkets (good news in itself!!), changes are being made in the conditions of quarters for their animals.

Hooray for Wayne Pacelle, President of the Human Society of the United States, the organization responsible for the Proposition.