Proposed Law In Oregon Would Ban Breeding And Slaughtering Livestock

The following report is from Farm Progress:

Initiative Petition 13, filed with Oregon elections officials in November, would remove farmer exemptions from existing laws barring animal cruelty and specifically target practices used for “(b)reeding domestic, livestock, and equine animals,” according to the text of the initiative.

The proposed Abuse, Neglect, and Assault Exemption Modification and Improvement Act would delete all references to “good animal husbandry” from state statute and only allow an animal to be injured in cases of a human’s self-defense. A veterinarian’s spaying and neutering of household pets would still be exempt.

The initiative’s sponsor, a group called End Animal Cruelty, is beginning to gather the 112,000 signatures they’ll need by next summer and is working through the national progressive network ActBlue to recruit volunteers for the effort, animal activist David Michelson recently told Portland’s KBOO-FM, a donor-supported radio station.

It would radically transform how we treat animals in the state of Oregon.

David Michelson

Sanctuary State For Animals

If this passes, Oregon would essentially be a sanctuary state for animals. Any animal in the state of Oregon would have their rights more or less codified in law, that they deserve a life free of abuse, neglect or sexual assault.

David Michelson

Michelson said the initiative wouldn’t ban animal agriculture entirely, nor would it abolish the sale of meat, leather or fur in Oregon. But livestock would have to die of natural causes before it could be used for food production, and “forced impregnation” of livestock would be outlawed, he said. Violators would face criminal prosecution.

Representatives of the Yes on IP13 campaign did not return an email from Farm Progress seeking comment.

Livestock groups say the initiative has dangerous implications for their industry. They note that language in the proposal specifically targets livestock transportation, poultry production and commonly accepted slaughter methods as well as fishing, hunting, trapping, wildlife management and other animal-related activities.

From my experience, I can tell you the reason the cattle industry leans heavily on AI (artificial insemination) is improved genetics, which means they’re more efficient with feed, more efficient with every aspect. It certainly would be problematic to have that taken away.

If you really boil it down, we’re talking about local food production. There’s a high degree of consumer awareness about purchasing local and understanding the local food supply, and you do not get better local food production than with a local beef producer.

Tammy Dennee. Executive director of Oregon Cattlemen’s Association, told Farm Progress

Rocky Mountain High Colorado

The proposal comes as animal-welfare activists in Colorado are gathering signatures for a similar 2022 ballot measure called the Protect Animals from Unnecessary Suffering and Exploitation (PAUSE) initiative.

It would ban artificial insemination and other commonly accepted veterinary and animal care practices in Colorado and would ban the slaughter of livestock that have not yet lived more than one-quarter of their anticipated lifetime, which for cattle would be about five years.

Opponents including the Colorado Cattlemen’s Association are sparring with backers over the initiative’s ballot language while holding rallies and engaging in a media blitz to explain animal husbandry practices and reassure residents that ranchers care about the humane treatment of livestock.

It’s hard for people to pursue these in some places but easier in others. Certainly they’re floating these in low-hanging states.

John Robinson. The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association’s senior vice president of membership and communications.

The NCBA is serving as “a clearinghouse of information” as it coordinates with state cattlemen’s associations and ranchers to fight the measures, Robinson told Farm Progress.

It’s important for livestock producers to present a unified front to see that these things are knocked down when they pop up.

Millions Of Cattle

Oregon’s roughly 12,000 beef producers raise about 1.3 million head of cattle in the state’s 36 counties, the OCA’s Dennee said. In addition, many Northern California ranchers truck thousands of head of cattle into Oregon for summer pasture. As cows have a 9-month gestation cycle, AI for spring calving would happen in the summer.

Given the fact that CCA has members who are right on the border of Oregon and operate in both states, any measures gaining momentum in Oregon similar to Colorado’s proposal could be concerning.

There could also be concerns of implications for the California ranchers whose cattle split their time between Oregon and California during the year, depending on when grass and feed is best available.

Katie Roberti. The California Cattlemen’s Association’s communications director.

Oregon’s Dennee said her organization will be working with the Oregon Farm Bureau and other farm groups to mount an opposition campaign in the coming months. “This is an important issue for us,” she said. “We will monitor it closely.”

Even if the measure fails to qualify for the ballot or is defeated, psychologist-turned-activist Michelson won’t give up, he told KBOO. He cited recent surveys by Oklahoma State University and an animal-welfare think tank that found 47% of U.S. respondents want to ban slaughterhouses, and large majorities are uncomfortable with the overall treatment of animals.

He noted that women’s suffrage in Oregon passed by ballot initiative on the sixth try.

We’ll just keep putting it before voters. Until a better world is here.

David Michelson

Here is what the official IP 13 website says they are advocating and pushing for:

Initiative Petition 13 is a ballot initiative filed for the 2022 Oregon general election. The formal title of IP13 is the Abuse, Neglect, and Assault Exemption Modification and Improvement Act. Before it can secure a spot on the ballot, we need to gather 112,020 signatures from registered Oregon voters.

As the formal title suggests, the aim of IP13 is to modify (and in our opinion, improve) our current laws that already criminalize animal abuse, animal neglect, and animal sexual assault in the state of Oregon. As they stand right now, not everyone is held to the same standard when it comes to animal cruelty, and some people are exempt from these laws. That is why IP13 works by modifying who is exempt from animal cruelty laws, and makes it so that we are all held to the same ethical standard.

Currently, under ORS 167.320, a person commits the crime of animal abuse in the first degree if someone “intentionally, knowingly or recklessly causes serious physical injury to an animal or cruelly causes the death of an animal.”

This definition doesn’t change. What does change, is that the law currently also includes a caveat, stating that farmers are exempt from this statute. This means that under current law even when they intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly cause serious physical injury to an animal (i.e. commit animal abuse in the first degree), for them it does not count as a crime. IP13 would remove this exemption. IP13 doesn’t change our definition of abuse, it merely changes who is considered above the law.

This initiative would not ban the sale of meat, leather, or fur. It would, however, radically change how everyone treats animals, including those who work in animal agriculture. It would create a system in Oregon where farmers were no longer exempt from animal cruelty laws. It would require that animals be allowed to truly live a good life free from abuse, neglect, and sexual assault. After an animal lives a full life, and exits the world naturally and humanely, this initiative does not prohibit a farmer from processing and distributing their body for consumption.

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AUTHOR COMMENTARY

[1] Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; [2] Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; [3] Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. [4] For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: [5] For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.

1 Timothy 4:1-5

Here is yet ANOTHER instance of the “dusty old Book” getting it right once again, the King James to be specific. If you do not believe me, pick up a new version or any translation other than the KJB, and you will notice verse 3 has been corrupted to say “foods.” While it is true some foods are being scrutinized right now, it is MEATS that are the target, and it is what the globalists and mad scientists are creating in a lab for us to eat to “save the world.”

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Did you also see the cover picture for this report. That picture is straight from the IP 13 website, and it has a lady with a shirt that has a serpent and says “Hail Seitan.” Gee wiz, if that isn’t telling! Just as 1 Timothy 4 accurately states…

When you read the persuasive language being used on their website – if you had heard only that, you’d probably be for it as many others as well. But in the minds of these liars, as 1 Timothy 4 describes, this would give the animals personhood. This is the same kind of pagan and devilish logic behind making the Magpie River in Canada a legal person.

It goes without saying that man should not physically destroy or legitimately abuse the land and animals carelessly.

[10] A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel. [11] He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.

Proverbs 12:10-11

But in the minds of these nutcases, eating an animal is abomination. So now, according to the report, you are essentially only allowed to have a pet, and when that “pet” dies, then you may consider eating it. Absolutely just warped.

One way or another this nonsense in some form will get passed in. The Bible prophesizes it will and it is what the globalists are unfazedly working towards. What will probably happen is “they” will stage another crisis where Covid, or something, has mutated and is infecting meat, therefore, will cause the masses to willingly throw out their real meat, kill the cows and chickens, and run to eat Bill Gates’ lab meat and Impossible Meats. -Mark it down and remember it as I firmly believe that is what the media and government will try and pull off.

Learn more about it from Christian from the Ice Age Farmer:

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