Animal-related ballot questions

On election day, voters in Arizona and Michigan did some great things for animals at the ballot box.  Michigan voters overturned a proposal to allow target shooting of mourning doves (oddly enough, the mourning dove is the state’s official bird, so the proposal seems to have been both cruel and ironic).  In Arizona, voters passed Proposition 204, which bans gestation crates for breeding pigs, and veal crates for young calves.  This makes Arizona the second state in the nation to ban gestation crates, and the first state to ban veal crates.  I wonder if pigs and calves will have to speak English-only to qualify for this new regulation?  Anyway, my sarcasm aside, both these issues saw two-thirds of voters expressing their support of humane animal treatment issues, and I think that’s great news.

It isn’t an animal-related ballot issue, but in Nevada we passed Proposition 5, which bans smoking in all places which allow gambling, but which aren’t officially designated as casinos.  If you’ve never been here, we have small video gambling sections in grocery stores, drug stores, convenience stores, and even gas stations, and people are allowed to smoke if they’re playing the machines.  It’s really quite disgusting to be shopping for groceries while smelling stale tobacco smoke, so I’m really happy this passed.  The lobbyists for the tobacco and gambling industries spent millions and millions of dollars to try to make sure this propostion failed, but voters were a lot smarter than I expected.  Yay, no more stinky grocery stores!

Posted by Leigh-Ann on 11/08 at 11:32 PM

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  1. Oh, YUCK!, I had no idea people could smoke in stores, there. That’s a law that needed to be passed. We have a few farms around here that have rows of veal ‘sheds’. They are dairy farms in main. Makes me sad.

    Posted by Diana  on  11/09  at  02:56 AM

  2. I’ve been blog hoping today and found your blogg from Nio.
    I found your article interesting about Aniamal-related issues.

    Get this I remember some ole doctor that had ashtray in his office her in North Idaho.
    I don’t know if he took out the ash trays or not. Before he retired or not.
    He has been dead for a while.

    Posted by peppylady  on  11/09  at  10:15 AM

  3. I wish Maine would ban ‘stupid fucking drunk-ass ‘cannot read the signs’ hunters from hunting in my backyard.  I live in a wooded area, and I cannot tell you how many times I hear loud gunshots while I am playing with my kids in the backyard.  Ugh…
    And I cannot tell you how many times I see these ‘hunters’ with a beer BEFORE hunting…

    I have called the police twice, the first time they got the guys… second I don’t know.  I would like to play with my kids in the backyard where I don’t have to ‘dive for cover’ every time I hear gunfire.

    As far as the smoking in the grocery store goes, holy shit, thank goodness that is now history… Yuck grin

    Posted by Kristine  on  11/09  at  02:50 PM

  4. Geesch… and Madison’s ban on smoking in bars was a really big deal.
    WI state bird of peace: mourning dove
    WI hunting seasons include: mourning dove
    But at least the feral cat hunting idea was shot down (pun intended).
    The kittens are getting bigger and cuter; I’ve watched your Flickr pics. Congratulations!

    Posted by Victor Tabbycat's Mom  on  11/09  at  04:34 PM
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