The Oregon Fiasco

[IronNoggin]

This is likely the video being referenced in this thread.

The guy is a real wack job!

Can't really see this gaining any real traction...

"Vegans are visionaries. We hold a vision of a nonviolent future where all animals are free from human imposed commodification, suffering, and killing. What if this vision was on the ballot and we could vote on it? That could be happening soon with the Oregon Initiative Petition 28 — officially titled the PEACE Act, People for Elimination of Animal Cruelty Exemptions. This ballot initiative would eliminate the legal exemptions that currently protect hunting, fishing, trapping, and farming from Oregon's animal abuse statutes. David Michelson is the visionary heading up this historic effort and on this episode he shares insights into the campaign including why he decided to start it, why in Oregon, and what its passing would mean for animals. He also clears up some misconceptions about the campaign and talks about our vision as a movement and how we need to hold onto the hope for total animal liberation.

David Michelson is the lead organizer behind a ballot initiative campaign in Oregon that seeks to ban the killing and breeding of all animals statewide—including those on farms, in research labs, and in the wild. David started this campaign in 2020, and is currently working on qualifying it for the 2026 upcoming election."

 

[Yoder]

There is no way I would comply with that nonsense.

 

[Andrew12gauge]

There is no way I would comply with that nonsense.

Seems to me it would almost be the exact kind of civil disobedience that is needed in this country to go and take an animal for food from Oregon each year.
Killing and eating animals is what humans have done for 1000’s of years to think that suddenly we shouldn’t partake in the natural cycle of life and death and allow any sort of law that would prohibit such is beyond the scope of reasonable thought


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[kcormack]

If this "Compassionate future" comes to pass in Oregon.

Every day will be Opening Day in Oregon!

 

[OregonSteeler]

I don't understand how other states have it written in their constitution that hunting and fishing is a protected right,nyet in Oregon this hasn't been brought to the table? Or has it?

 

[JeffP_Or]

....yet in Oregon this hasn't been brought to the table? Or has it?

It has been brought to the last 3 - maybe 4 - legislative sessions with sponsors etc.; in last years short session it was SJR13.

Has not really gotten much traction though since the 'right' is covered in law [the exemption that is being rewritten by IP28 (and 3 & 4 before that)]. It mostly seems nobody really wants to rock the boat much and it would take a ballot measure to revise the constitution - easier to be on the defensive than take the offensive and bring it to light and let everyone have their say voting on a constitutional change. At least that is how I interpret it.