The Lobbyist Behind Your $7 Eggs - Michigan Enjoyer

The egg farmers love the new restrictions, because they helped them crush out-of-state competition - Charlie LeDuff
Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
Wrong. It was the lobbyist.

• The price of eggs has skyrocketed in Michigan, and it’ll probably never go down in an appreciable way. And it’s all due to a chummy deal cut between Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, animal-rights activists, and corporate egg producers. 

Then there is the lobbyist who put the whole thing together.
The background:
In 2009, the Humane Society of the United States convinced Gov. Jennifer Granholm to sign a law requiring Michigan egg producers to use bigger cages so that confined hens could spread their wings and live more “humanely.”...

• Instead of larger cages, how about doing away with cages altogether by 2025?...