Governing agriculture by popular urban opinion – what could possibly go wrong? Meet Colorado’s Initiative 16;
A recent ballot initiative being proposed in the state of Colorado is a serious concern for farmers, veterinarians, and other animal welfarists. The initiative, originally called Protect Animals from Unnecessary Suffering and Exploitation (PAUSE), has appeared before the title board after it was filed with Colorado’s Secretary of State. After a successful title board hearing, it is now called Initiative 16 in Colorado. This means that once enough signatures have been gathered, Initiative 16 will appear on the Colorado voting ballot for the general public to determine.
It includes a definition of the “natural lifespan” of livestock: “a cow lives to 20 years, a chicken lives to 8 years, a turkey lives to 10 years, a duck lives to 6 years, a pig lives to 15 years, a sheep lives to 15 years, a rabbit lives to 6 years.”
Section 3 then goes on to incorporate this change by adding in another subsection (1.9) which reads as follows: “any person who slaughters livestock in accordance with accepted agricultural animal husbandry practices does not violate the provisions of subsection (1) of this section so long as the animal has lived one quarter of their natural lifespan based on species, breed, and type of animal and the animal is slaughtered in such a way that the animal does not needlessly suffer.” This would essentially mean that the age required for legal slaughter and harvest is greatly increased – which, in the case of cattle, would be a full five years according to the language in this proposed change.
Language expanding the definition of “sexual act with an animal” would also effectively ban artificial insemination, and other veterinary and husbandry procedures unless that person is “dispensing care to an animal in the interest of improving that animal’s health”.
How “interest” might be defined will keep veterinarians up at night.
Chad Vorthmann, executive vice president of Colorado Farm Bureau, said this initiative is, in his 20 years in Colorado, the worst initiative he’s seen filed, even in the shadow of Proposition 114 which requires Colorado officials to introduce and manage wolves.
“That was bad,” he said. “This is worse.
The animal rights fueled initiative still faces a process of appeals and other requirements before it can be certified for a public ballot. The original document can be downloaded here..
I would like to be able to govern urban centres by rural opinion.
I would point to the devastating impact in a small area of the environment that wires, cement, pavement, sewer, excavation, traffic congestion, concentrated air pollution, water pollution, light pollution that the urban “purists” impose on Mother Earth. Shameful.
“Glass house”??
Set up a packing plant in southern Wyoming and maybe a big cattle auction in case they try to restrict shipment directly to packing plants. They can only restrict Colorado packing plants. I thought Colorado was ranch country. The still wear cowboy hats in Calgary around Stampede.
Be some tough chewing in CO.
Target for cattle is less than 24 months, over 30 months has special protocols with BSE so going 5 years is out of question.
For chickens, the timeline is 8 to 12 weeks, not 2 years.
Yes, no slaughter plants in CO unless it is for cull cows and spent hens.
Wonder if they will ban transport of livestock out of state if not already past 1/4 of lifespan. Why not.
Better yet, ban importing meat unless livestock was verifiably past 1/4 of lifespan.
Together that would remove most meat from CO and let the public enjoy their soy bean meal.
go for it armchair experts. or is that *ex SPURTS* ?
let it succeed and teach another law, that of unanticipated consequences.
let it be the tip of the iceberg and one consequence be a global culling of idjits.
My first post-college job was working for a Japanese family business. The family patriarch used to dismiss the insanity of liberals as owing to a lack of meat-eating. “If they’d only eat more meat, they wouldn’t be quite so stupid”
Yes, allowing the hummus-eaters to control public policy is quite, bloody, insane!
The end of 4H as we know it.
You don’t need a gun because you shouldn’t eat meat anyway. So no need for livestock and prisoner pets.
Come to think of it you don’t need your kitchen, everybody over to the commune cafeteria.
You can eat what we serve you. Actually you can wear what we decide, along with where you live.
A little bit at a time. Two weeks lockdown, no big deal, sign off on giant debt, no big deal, put on a mask, not big deal.
Get a vaccine, no big deal. Let’s vaccinate the entire population even after the vulnerables has been vaccinated.
That’s why “new cases” are going to be the young, giving it to vulnerable who are already immune though vaccination.
But you’ll have to keep wearing mask because political covid is impervious to epidemiology and keeps getting “stronger”
Why, because one young person in seven million might die from covid, though not a speck of data to confirm it.
Another strain of the mutant virus of totalitarianism. Conclusions in search of data and crimes in search of perpetrators.
The apparatchiks will never let go of this infusion of political power oxygen; look how they grovel over disproved CAGW?
It serves them, which binds all authoritarian incompetence. They push their preferences on society, to turn us into vegetarians.
Here’s a thought. If there’s a “4th wave,” don’t blame the people, fire the entire scientific establishment for incompetence.
Throw in some criminal negligence charges for letting covid into long term care homes. Watch that virus suddenly cure itself.
Ties in nicely with our “war on agriculture” discussion of a few days ago.
So no more veal or lamb in Colorado, and restricting hunting as well
Did I mention “ noise” pollution?
Definition of urban liberals.
“ someone who’s own interests are not at stake at the moment”.
By the time they figure out their interests are “ at stake”…they will be very skinny.
Liberal. n. A humanoid type life-form that advocates for the abolishment of eating meat as it means the death of animals but has no problem murdering pre-born children and the elderly.
Interesting how these same folks won’t argue for even this level of protection for human beings. 25% of human being’s natural life span is around 18+ years.
Haw haw – I’d fix that lark real quick. Just add one line to the Bill:
“Animal products not fully and provably compliant with the provisions of this Act may NOT be brought into the State for sale, gift or any other reason.”
So, meat? – the price triples. Eggs, milk? – same, or more – two-year-old chickens don’t lay many eggs. Cheese – “that cheese wasn’t made with natural rennet, was it? No? – PROVE IT!” – and if they can’t, it’s automatically outlawed and must be destroyed; rennet comes from calves, after all. Leather of any kind – handbags, shoes, garments, upholstery – prices triple again. Lots of industrial processes still depend on animal byproducts; pet foods will go through the roof. And BTW, how are you going to prove the age of any fish products?
It’s obviously a ploy to force vegetarianism on the populace – well guess what, vegetarian foods are going to go through the roof too as meat leaves the shelves and the demand spikes for whatever’s left. “Heeeeey, we’re VEGAN! No faaair making US pay more!!!” Well, tit-for-tat – looks good on you.
Time to regale them all with the Arrogant Worms’ “I heard the screams of the vegetables” =D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmK0bZl4ILM
hahahahaha. stupid people.
But… but… but meat comes from that chilly aisle at the back of the grocery store, so we don’t need no stinking farms. They just take up huge amounts of space where the solar panels should be. Go, Colorado Initiative 16, go!
Control the food you control the people. Congrats to the city people for creating their own prison Shit hole!
“Language expanding the definition of “sexual act with an animal” would also effectively ban…”
No fair, my body, my tail.