Posted on 09/05/2019 6:34:06 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a measure Wednesday making the state the first to ban fur trapping, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The Wildlife Protection Act bars commercial or recreational trapping on both private and public land, according to the Times.
The commercial trapping industry shaped the early economy of California and the American West in general but has played an increasingly smaller role over the decades.
It seems especially cruel, obviously, and its just unnecessary and costly, said Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D), who introduced the bill. She added that the roughly 70 trappers who continue to work in the state, compared to thousands a century ago, cannot afford the cost of regulating the industry, according to the Times.
California Department of Fish and Wildlife data indicates 68 trappers killed 1,568 animals throughout the state in 2017, including coyotes, badgers, minks, gray foxes and beavers. To avoid damaging the furs, these animals were strangled, shot or beaten to death.
Despite the decline in trapping in the state, outrage at the practice has been widespread since 2013, when conservationist Tom OKey came upon a bobcat trap illegally set on his land, according to the Times.
I could not have guessed in a million years that trap would spark an unstoppable movement capable of shifting legislative thinking toward wildlife, OKey told the newspaper. The incident also led to the Bobcat Protection Act of 2013 and a 3-2 vote by the California Fish and Game Commission to ban commercial bobcat trapping.
So, we get plastic bags and now they want to ban them.
First, we had paper straws, then plastic, now back to paper with "innovation".
When are we going to stop listening to the fickle Left about what they like or don't like this week versus last week?
“When are we going to stop listening to the fickle Left about what they like or don’t like this week versus last week?”
This bs has been going on in California for decades.
4 decades ago we move to where we live now. We went to an every member dinner at the new church we started going to.
This was in one of the most serious droughts in the history of California.
Instead of using paper plates and plastic forks/spoons/knives, the enviros at the church ran 3 dishwashers twice to clean the dishes.
I brought up the drought and was shouted down by the eco freaks, that using paper plates and plastic eating gear was destroying the world. Running the dishwashers in water rationing was good for the world.
My wife was looking for a place to hide until 4 couples came up and apologized for the behavior of the eco freaks.
We became good friends with those 4 couples and still are friends with them.
But maybe that's assuming too much...
Vermin can still be trapped and killed. For now.
And we know in the cities, its the democrats that are vermin; the infestation.
California is indeed the Golden State; how I wish Americans could win it back.
Roger that. Been there, done that.
SorryI was off my game a bit. Although I thought it was funny.
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