Breeders skeptical of animal cruelty law
By Jake Wright IDS
POSTED AT 12:38 AM ON Mar. 12, 2009
INDIANA - Area dog breeders and pet owners alike are concerned about the proposition of a new bill aimed at reducing animal cruelty.
The bill is intended to strengthen anti-animal cruelty laws and crack down on puppy mills, which are mass breeding facilities that produce puppies for sale in pet stores, over the Internet and directly to customers. But some breeders said they are worried the laws put in place to help are going to do more damage than good.
The bill, H.B. 1468, passed the Indiana House of Representatives last month with a landslide 81-14 vote and will now go before the Senate. If the Senate passes the bill, it will then be put before the governor, who will either sign the bill or veto it.
If passed, the bill would expand Indiana’s animal cruelty statute from just neglecting food and water to neglecting shelter and medical care. Also, anyone convicted of animal cruelty would no longer be allowed to own a pet.
The bill also cracks down on puppy mills by requiring them to give dogs ample exercise outside their cages and facilities, consistently clean the cages, and construct the cages to protect dogs from disease and injury and have sufficient heating, cooling and ventilation. Read More
Just think about this for a minute. HSUS is backing legislation like this all over the country that will require dog breeders to protect dogs from disease and injury and have sufficient heating, cooling and ventilation. This is exactly what hog farmers ar already doing and have been doing for quite some time now. Yet HSUS is also demanding that hog farmers take their hogs out of this type of environment and put them outside. It just goes to show that their main concern is promoting a vegan society, not the proper care of animals.
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Livestock Legislation in Indiana
Livestock bills move to Senate
Efforts to regulate concentrated animal feeding operations get bipartisan support in House
BY PAM THARP CORRESPONDENT
Two bills that will regulate concentrated animal feeding operations have passed the Indiana House with bipartisan support and advance to the Indiana Senate.
House Bill 1075, which restricts the location of new CAFOs and confined feeding operations to two miles from state park and reservoir boundaries, passed on its third reading Tuesday morning by a 51-47 vote.
Area state representatives Phil Pflum, a Democrat, and Republicans Tom Saunders and Tom Knollman supported the setback bill. The bill was amended to allow existing livestock operations within the two-mile perimeter to expand, which was an issue for some representatives, Saunders said.
"If they are good neighbors, there's no reason not to allow expansion," Saunders said. Read More
I wrote an article about this subject last fall called “Peak Ag”. I talked about how agriculture is continually being told where they are no longer welcome. And this new bill in Indiana is a great example. Regardless of the science, soil type, topography, etc, if this bill passes you couldn’t build a modern livestock facility within two miles of a state park. The biggest problem with this is that society has decided that science is not good enough to make these decisions anymore, but rather we should make them with our emotions. That’s find and dandy, but think about what state your emotions will be in when we can no longer produce enough food in this country to feed ourselves. Food has to be grown somewhere.
Efforts to regulate concentrated animal feeding operations get bipartisan support in House
BY PAM THARP CORRESPONDENT
Two bills that will regulate concentrated animal feeding operations have passed the Indiana House with bipartisan support and advance to the Indiana Senate.
House Bill 1075, which restricts the location of new CAFOs and confined feeding operations to two miles from state park and reservoir boundaries, passed on its third reading Tuesday morning by a 51-47 vote.
Area state representatives Phil Pflum, a Democrat, and Republicans Tom Saunders and Tom Knollman supported the setback bill. The bill was amended to allow existing livestock operations within the two-mile perimeter to expand, which was an issue for some representatives, Saunders said.
"If they are good neighbors, there's no reason not to allow expansion," Saunders said. Read More
I wrote an article about this subject last fall called “Peak Ag”. I talked about how agriculture is continually being told where they are no longer welcome. And this new bill in Indiana is a great example. Regardless of the science, soil type, topography, etc, if this bill passes you couldn’t build a modern livestock facility within two miles of a state park. The biggest problem with this is that society has decided that science is not good enough to make these decisions anymore, but rather we should make them with our emotions. That’s find and dandy, but think about what state your emotions will be in when we can no longer produce enough food in this country to feed ourselves. Food has to be grown somewhere.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Indiana in the Cross Hairs
Hoosiers lobby for animal rights in Indianapolis
Updated: Tuesday, 10 Feb 2009, 6:29 PM
Jane Santucci
TERRE HAUTE, Ind (WTHI) - On Tuesday, Hoosiers headed to the statehouse to lobby for animal rights.
On Wednesday, Indiana lawmakers will make a decision that may start to give animals the right to live a humane life.
Dead chicken, sheep, a horse, a dog with no nutrients, a horse with a broken leg and one without an eye. All these animals victims of neglect within the past year.
Now, there is new legislation to fight for the animals that can not speak for themselves.
Last October, a puppy mill was raided in Sullivan County. Veteraniarian Miacheal Staub saw it first hand.
"Not seeking veterinary care for a seriously injuered animal in this bill would be considered neglect, right now it's not," said Staub. Read More
Indiana, along with Ohio and Illinois, have been placed in the HSUS bulls eye for the next round of legislative attacks on agriculture. The interesting thing about this particular article is the last sentence. They want to force people to take animals to a vet if they need medical attention, yet we don’t have to do that with our own children. This makes it quite obvious that groups like HSUS and PETA put the lives of animals over humans.
Updated: Tuesday, 10 Feb 2009, 6:29 PM
Jane Santucci
TERRE HAUTE, Ind (WTHI) - On Tuesday, Hoosiers headed to the statehouse to lobby for animal rights.
On Wednesday, Indiana lawmakers will make a decision that may start to give animals the right to live a humane life.
Dead chicken, sheep, a horse, a dog with no nutrients, a horse with a broken leg and one without an eye. All these animals victims of neglect within the past year.
Now, there is new legislation to fight for the animals that can not speak for themselves.
Last October, a puppy mill was raided in Sullivan County. Veteraniarian Miacheal Staub saw it first hand.
"Not seeking veterinary care for a seriously injuered animal in this bill would be considered neglect, right now it's not," said Staub. Read More
Indiana, along with Ohio and Illinois, have been placed in the HSUS bulls eye for the next round of legislative attacks on agriculture. The interesting thing about this particular article is the last sentence. They want to force people to take animals to a vet if they need medical attention, yet we don’t have to do that with our own children. This makes it quite obvious that groups like HSUS and PETA put the lives of animals over humans.
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