"SB 662, one of the bills being sponsored by the California Animal Association (CAA), has been assigned to the Senate Agriculture Committee for a hearing sometime in early April.

SB 662 (Migden) seeks to amend California’s Methods of Slaughter law to include spent hens and small game birds. When the Methods of Slaughter law was amended in 1990 to include poultry, spent hens and small game birds were excluded. The law requires that animals used for food must be rendered insensible to pain prior to having their throats cut."