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The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to consider challenges to a pair of state laws restricting the use of confinement in animal agriculture.

WASHINGTON, May 24, 2017 - American egg farmers face more challenges than just building new chicken housing as they convert, as now projected, up to half of their 375 million laying hens from cages to open barns, called aviaries, or pastured-based systems of housing by 2025 or so.