Posted on 02/20/2026 6:23:22 AM PST by Morgana
Enjoy hunting, fishing, and eating meat while you can. None of these things is to be permitted as progressives progress toward utopia. Moonbattery-addled Oregon shows the way.
KPTV reports:
Animal rights advocates are close to having enough signatures to qualify a ballot measure in Oregon that would dramatically change how animals are treated under state law, including banning most hunting, fishing, livestock farming and animal research.
The proposed measure Initiative Petition 28, would remove many long-standing exemptions in Oregon’s animal cruelty laws. Under the initiative, most activities that hurt or kill animals would become criminal offenses.
No doubt many who self-righteously signed the petition would abort their own children without batting an eye. Too bad babies can’t self-identify as animals.
[Chief petitioner David] Michelson compared the initiative to the women’s suffrage movement.
It had to be either that or the fight to end Jim Crow. Self-parody is second nature to liberals.
The tyrannical proposal has a suitably moonbatty name: the PEACE Act (People for the Elimination of Animal Cruelty Exemptions).
Opponents, including the Oregon Hunters Association, say it would force Oregonians onto a vegan diet or force people [to] have their meat products shipped in from other states. They say it would destroy entire industries, including agriculture, fishing, hunting, scientific research, food production, pest control and restaurants.
In short, it would help render Oregon unlivable for anyone but moonbats — which will soon be the case anywhere they consolidate power.
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Associated on-line unscientific polls show a 97% v. 3% opposition, in part because killing rats would be outlawed.
Can I still swat flies?
How about can I kill COVID germs?
I know what redneck hunters and fishermen are like. They’ll follow reasonable rules for hunting and fishing.
Unreasonable rules will be met with unlimited poaching.
This will be WORSE for the animals. I promise.
Black and brown rats, house mice, pigeons, etc are invasive pests (originally from Europe or Asia). If self-righteous "environmentalists" had any knowledge or sense, they would applaud efforts to eliminate them.
well, there goes the tourism revenue.
In many states, hunters are the main lobby whose votes and voices prevent public state lands from being sold off to developers. If the hunters can no longer legally hunt, the public forest lands will become developments and the wildlife will be gone. Of course, none of this matters to urban “environmentalists” whose real agenda is virtue-signaling, not wildlife conservation.
All the man bun boyz are going to have left to do is play pickle ball.
From one of the most ‘free’ states to an oppressive s hole. I can’t wait to get out of here. But mum still wants to stay.
Oregon- The Crotch of America.
Might have a hope of turning Kotek and a bunch of others out of office if this and the gas tax are on the November ballot.
Can’t the federal government allow hunting in national parks?
If this becomes law Oregon will have to learn a painful lesson Arizona learned 100 years ago. Mass starvation of wild life.
https://www.scribd.com/doc/314912202/the-lesson-of-the-kaibab-carrying-capacity-1
With respect, I disagree .
My California family moved into Oregon, then Washington with deep conservative values and voting.
The infiltration and subversion originates in a academia, not in any states citizens.
It’s the communism.
Taught and caught.
Commies, from all states, are what move into states , commies teaching and kids indoctrinated by public socialist education.
I was thinking the same...Killing babies good...Killing Animals bad...
Are they serious that they are not crazy?? They are CRAZY!!!
Bear attacks will make them happy. They are far more anti-human that pro-amimal. The animal welfare is nothing more than an excuse to exterminate humanity. That is their true goal. Animal rights is merely a vehicle to that end.
Nah. There are **some** things, that not even a **starving** bear would eat...
I’m sure that the bears will love eating meat laced with hormonal birth control, anti-anxiety meds, SSRIs, and maybe some VD.
Next up: banning disinfectants.
Bacteria have feelings too!
Kotex’s transportation plan: 6-cent gas tax increase, registration fee hikes and doubled transit tax
https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/07/23/koteks-transportation-plan-6-cent-gas-tax-increase-registration-fee-hikes-and-doubled-transit-tax/
The plan she laid out on Wednesday includes:
Increasing the state’s 40-cent gas tax to 46 cents, splitting that difference between the state transportation department and local governments.
The state would receive 50% of the increase, Oregon’s 36 counties would get 30% and cities would receive 20%.
A $42 increase to vehicle registration fees, which now range from $126 to $156 depending on a car’s age and miles per gallon.
A $30 supplemental fee for electric vehicles, which now cost $316 to register for two years.
A $139 increase to the state’s title fee, which now ranges from $101 to $116 for gas cars or $192 for electric vehicles.
Doubling the current 0.1% payroll tax for transit to 0.2%.
Committing to implementing a per-mile charge for electric vehicles and hybrids at some point in the next few years.
Repealing references to tolling left over from a 2017 transportation package. At the time, lawmakers intended to introduce tolling to pay for improvements on roads including Interstate 205 in the Portland area, but Kotek has since declared a moratorium on tolls for everything but a replacement bridge on Interstate 5 connecting Oregon and Washington.
“We are on a pause across the system on tolling outside of the interstate bridge, and I want to make that very clear in the bill,” Kotek said.
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