AB 594, formerly titled “Farm animals: confinement” was whittled down to “Pigs: tethering and confinement” yesterday. The amended version, still in the hands of the Agriculture Committee, removes protection from confinement for its clucking or mooing stakeholders. This version also limits confinement to the “seven-day period before the pig’s expected date of giving birth,” introduces a jail term for violation, and pushes the operative enforcement of the bill’s provisions ahead by two years. Compare and contrast: Florida, Arizona, Oregonia (it’s like Canadialand without the rampaging moose, hockey, or LAPD). J/k, we luv the Oregoniaonites, especially the Gov., who actually tried to eat with food stamps for a week.
Here’s some silliness that thankfully failed in Committee despite it’s various amending, and a fine analysis of why it should have done nothing more than fail. LYLAS over there at the AnimalBlawg.
c0demonkey is busy with this pipe-laying project, which we think … aggregating yet another aggregation of aggregators is way redundant. But that nunchuck-waving chimp swears it’ll be the primo-sourced, finely-filtered, JSON-outputted feed for farm animal related stuffs anywhere. Yeah, we’ll just see about that. For what we’re paying, we can’t complain or expect a whole helluva lot.
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