Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon just signed off on repealing most of the important parts of that Puppy Mill Cruelty Prevention Act that lots of you voted for and others voted against last year. Among the controversial new rules struck by Nixon's signature: a limit of 50 breeding dogs per business, and requiring little things like veterinary care, clean food, and drinking water free of feces.
Because 51 percent of you voted 'yay' to this and 49 percent voted 'nay,' and because I'm pretty sure people just want to read what they thought all along anyway, I'll write a couple of paragraphs for both sides after the jump, so you can just have your decisions reinforced. If I do a really neato job of writing something you already know, and I do it with nice words, you'll think I'm smart and talented and pretty!
For you 'yay' voters: This is fucking bullshit. They put this to a vote, and Missouri's residents decided what they wanted done after months of campaigning. That's the whole point of a democracy! The people look at an issue and vote on it, and then that's what we go with because that's the decision the people made. And while we're at it, fuck Rep. Jason Smith who helped push this through. That asshole's parents run one of the worst puppy mills in the state (documented!!), and now he gets to spit in the face of the voters he's supposed to be working for so his family can make a few extra bucks on a puppy by making sure they don't have to shelter it or get it to a doctor when it's covered in parasites. When it comes to animal welfare, the only difference between the dickholes in Jefferson City and the guys hosting pit-bull fights in their basements is that the dogfighters don't pretend to be good people. They've got too much integrity.
For the 'nay' voters: If they regulate puppies, they'll do it to cows, and then we'll all starve, you fucking hippies! It's a dog! It's a goddamn soulless beast!
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For the past two years the greatest proportion of official Warnings, issued by the USDA, have been to Mo licensed commercial dog breeders! Most of those - who received Warnings for repeated serious violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act - have a long history of violating the federal AWA and the MO Animal Care Facilities law.
As of last week, each of these breeders were still llicensed in MO - and their dogs are still suffering. Have been suffering for years, and apparenly will continue to suffer the remainder of their lives. As cited in their inspection reports: Dogs starving, dogs in need of immediate vet care, dogs and puppies left unprotected from freezing temps and all the other horrors that HSUS has publicised and that Prop B targeted..
Nixon and the Mo Dept of Agr are responiblel for enforcing these laws and have FAILED, and they are the one's overseeing the enforcement of SB 161 !!!
It's time to expose these licensed breeders who consistently ignore the laws and are being protected by Nixon and the MDA. It's our $1M Nixon is throwng at the MDA for 'enforcement', and this time the MDA must be held accountable.
I will be sending copies of these USDA/APHIS reports to Nixon and the rural elected agri-teat sucking fascists, and I want answers as to why these breeders are still licensed and operating in MO. I want to know that my tax $$ is being spent on enforcement.
The fight for the humane and ethical care of dogs by MO commercial dog breeders is far from over.
This is correct... corporate hog farms will fight tooth-and-nail any law which *might* set a precedent that *could* later be used against them.
I guess I'm part of the problem, because I dislike hog farms - but still enjoy the taste of bacon.
I'm promise to focus all my investigative powers on dickholds, because frankly I'm a little curious about the life of a dickhold now that you mention it. Journalism!
Ya keep getting it wrong, it is not about cows but Big Pig. Several members of the Mo. legislature operate hog factories. Big Pig has done well by using questionable methods of production.
The governor should have shown a pair and vetoed the bill solely on the emergency rider attached to the bill.
This whole episode shows a very broken relationship between urban and rural. The fear and the distrust between the two is played like a fiddle by groups on both sides.
Between this dickhold story and the Oprah tale, thou hast me in stitches. well done buddy.
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