OR ballot to end hunting, fishing, ranching, dairy farming. . .

[elkduds]

Help Fund IP28 Film

Oregon Initiative Petition 28, which its proponents call the PEACE Act, would criminalize any intentional harm to an animal in the state of Oregon. In practice, that means hunting, fishing, ranching, and all meat production and processing become criminal acts. It means breeding dairy cows for...

www.howlforwildlife.org

 

[Hawk Tuah]

Crazy. Even crazier it will have a serious possibility of actually passing.

 

[huntandfly]

I would love to hear the bill writer’s proposal for enforcement

 

[rookieforever33]

So does buying meat from another state become illegal? How far can they go?

 

[Dave N]

Spay or neuter your pets? A whole bunch of "what if's" are possible.

 

[dan.kirkpatrick]

i figured the city do gooder folks from oregon would be foolish enough to get enough signatures to get it on the november vote,,hope it gets voted down hard like our gas tax did

 

[F250]

Really have to wonder where we are headed. The freakin crazies are actually getting closer to taking over. How far would that petition have made it in the 60’s or 70’s ?

 

[bayoublaster7527]

This is why constitutional right to hunt and fish initiatives are so important, particularly ballot initiative 303 in Colorado. We could easily see something like a watered down version of IP28 here in Colorado based on the growth of anti-hunting organizations here.

For all the “No one is trying to take away hunting….” apologists. You are just dead wrong.