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Goal: Support extending animal welfare rights to livestock and farmed animals. An often overlooked and exploited sector of animals could soon find new safeguards and protections under Colorado law. While animal welfare rules cover pets in Colorado and other states, animals used in agriculture typically do not receive many, if any, of these benefits. They are therefore subject to severe abuse, assault, neglect, and mistreatment. Colorado’s Protect Animals from Unnecessary Suffering and Exploitation (PAUSE) Act puts stringent standards of care in place for animal agriculture industries. Sexua...

“At the bottom of every one of these ballot initiatives is an animal rights group that’s driven by a larger strategy, but it’s not as coordinated on the surface as people would like to think it is,” said John Robinson, the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association’s senior vice president of membership and communications. The initiatives’ supporters are “similar in their messaging tactics and driven by a larger conversation that’s not easily linked to one group,” Robinson told Farm Progress. The Oregon proposal’s sponsor, a group called End Animal Cruelty, was started last ye...

Tim Hearden 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 official...

Newest Florida Blueberry and Colorado Animal-Cruelty Initiative Monday Apr 19th, 2021 From the Ag Information Network, I’m Bob Larson with your Agribusiness Update. **April is a sure sign of spring in the Sunshine State and the best time to find ripe Florida blueberries. Patricio Muñoz, University of Florida assistant professor, developed Florida’s newest blueberry variety called the “sentinel,” in honor of Florida blueberry pioneer Alto Straughn. Muñoz tells www.floridafarmbureau.org the sentinel provides farmers a new opportunity to produce during the best market window...

Pueblo County commissioners voted Thursday to oppose a controversial proposed animal welfare ballot initiative, claiming that the potential economic devastation from its implementation would be immeasurable. Initiative 16, also known as as the Protect Animals from Unnecessary Suffering and Exploitation (PAUSE) Act, would expand definitions of animal cruelty if passed by Colorado voters in 2022. Specifically, it would change what constitutes sexual abuse and require livestock to live out one-quarter of their natural lifespan before slaughter. It has sparked severe pushback from the ranchin...