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by Traci Eatherton for Tri-State Livestock News
While Biden has overturned a number of previous administrations’ policies, his plans for managing the 1971 Free-Roaming Wild Horse and Burro Act (The Act) are still up in the air. But environmentalist groups are leading the charge, hoping the new administration will boot the grazing competition on any public lands.
More than 70 groups have sent a letter to the Biden Administration’s new Interior Secretary, asking that all livestock grazing allotments that overlap designated herd management areas (HMAs) be canceled. The letter, dated April 9, claims that the removal of the cattle will “promote rapid progress toward” establishing a “Thriving Natural Ecological Balance” for all species occupying federal rangelands.
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Students at Shasta College in Redding, Calif., put a castration band on a calf in 2019. Proposed ballot initiatives in Oregon and Colorado would ban the practice. IP13 would classify slaughter as aggravated abuse, redefine AI and castration as sexual assault.
An Oregon ballot initiative proposed for 2022 would effectively criminalize the farming of food animals in the state by classifying their slaughter as aggravated abuse and redefining artificial insemination and castration as sexual assault.
Initiative Petition 13, filed with Oregon elections officials in November, would remove farmer exemptions from existing laws barring animal cruelty and specifically target practices used for “(b)reeding domestic, livestock, and equine animals,” according to the text of the initiative.
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