Pro-Horse Slaughter Extremists in Missouri Finally Lose a Rough Battle, Despite Their Ugliness Towards Others Who Peacefully Protested the Slaughter of Horses

HELL!!!!

Here's the entire article, folks, in case the article drops off from the website:

Missouri Tea Partiers Campaigning Against Proposition Mandating Humane Conditions At Puppy Mills

puppy2 The main philosophical principle of the conservative-led tea party movement is an “aversion to big government,” with tea party organizers turning their ire on comprehensive health reform, clean energy legislation, and even mandatory trash collection.

Now, a group of Missouri tea partiers have found a new target: regulations that would mandate more humane conditions in the state’s puppy mills. This November, Missouri voters will go to the polls and decide the fate of Missouri’s Proposition B, which would place new regulations on puppy mills, including mandating that they provide “sufficient food and clean water, necessary veterinary care, sufficient housing, including protection from the elements, sufficient space to turn and stretch freely, lie down, and fully extend his or her limbs, regular exercise, and adequate rest between breeding cycles.”

As TPM Muckraker’s Jillian Rayfield reports, the Missouri Tea Party and the Tea Party Patriots have begun organizing meetings against the proposition. One tea party activist described the measure as being about the “government or the big company trying to tell people what to do“:

The Tea Party has also gotten on board the anti-Prop B bandwagon. A meeting called “Vote NO on Proposition B” on October 12 is advertised on websites for the Missouri Tea Party and the Tea Party Patriots. The event, held at Coach’s Pizza World, is being organized by the Mexico Tea Party, which activist Ron Beedle told TPM is a relatively new chapter of the Tea Party. This is their first meeting, he said, and Prop B is about the “government or the big company trying to tell people what to do.”

Also campaigning against the proposition is the local chapter of conservative Phyllis Schlafly’s Eagle Forum and Samuel Wurzelbacher (”Joe The Plumber“). Wurzelbacher has teamed up with the Alliance For Truth, an anti-Prop B organization strongly backed by the kennells and mills across the state, to blog against the measure. One blog post by him features an animal rescue officer kicking down the door of a home. Meanwhile, the Missouri Cattleman’s Association is warning that if the Humane Society — which is a big booster of the proposition — manages to pass the measure, they may be able to succeed in bettering conditions for farm animals as well.

It appears that for certain segments of the conservative movement, any regulation by the government is too much regulation by the government. Even when it comes to protecting the welfare of puppies.

Do you mind if I make this a brand new article, with its own headline, since it pertains to puppy mills, not the equally abhorrent horse slaughtering? This needs LOTS of attention, and thanks for bringing it to mine!

already did, I should have given the link to the story I posted on Current I suppose..

I've added it to "Veganism," because true animal rights equals veganism.

I'm so "glad" you discovered this news item, even though I'm nauseated by its content. Thank you again!

Everything's cool and, before your reply came in, I'd already added it. Well, this way, hopefully even MORE people will become aware of the latest b.s. being pulled by the Missouri government.

Yeah, what the hell is wrong with that guy?! THAT's how he talks to citizens? I hope a horse kicks him in his arrogant head. Why doesn't it surprise me that he's republican? They're so easy to profile!

Do you have those emails documented? I'd send them straight to the state. Maybe have his ass investigated. He's hardly a steward of men.

Oops, I didn't see the link you have for the emails. What a disgusting man. At least you got response though. I usually get the typical "duly noted" replies when I write to reps. about animals.

I sent everything initially to one of the main papers in Missouri. Never heard back.

Then I sent it on to the governor. Guess what? Never heard back.

That sounds about right. It's terrible that so many people care about animals, vegan or not, but they can't get anyone to listen.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr....

It's a little difficult to understand you. I respect the fact that you
may be foreign to the USA. And that you may not have proof read
(checked) your writing. Don't you mean " it's terrible that people
don't care about animals ? " If you do, then yes, I agree. To love
God's creatures is to love you're being considered by the Almighty
to be one of them. And is to love in harmony with them. There's a
cherry tree in the back yard here. Soon it will be feeding the birds.
Because once a year they have a feast here. God bless them,
When they're gone in the Winter it's such a lonely place without them.
Can't wait until I can hear their sweet singing sounds again in the Spring.

That's a mother and son in the photo depicted above is it not ?
I'm born to be a whisperer to equines. I can't wait until I establish
a horse ranch In the high chaparal country in Colorado. Saw a Joel
McRae movie entitled Mustang Country on Encore Westerns the
other day. ( He was a contemporary of Alen Ladd, John Wayne,
Gary Cooper et al in the 1940s, 50s, 60s, on up until 1976 ) It
featured wild horses in Colorado, and made me so homesick.
They are such majestic creatures, and so highly spirited and
freedom loving. How could they be anything other than the symbol
of the USA to a true Westerner ???

Yes, that is a mother and her son, the sweeties.

I'm definitely familiar with Joel McRae, as well as the others you just mentioned.

What's happening to the Mustangs, in particular, is deplorable. Yes, those wild horses should be considered one of our nation's symbols, as they once roamed the entire country (way before it WAS a country).

This reply may be more so for PressCore, actually. I am positively certain that you, Kurta, DID mean exactly what you wrote. Because there are people such as you and I who DO care deeply about our voiceless friends but, as you said, we CAN'T get anyone to listen, much less CARE, even enough to try to do something. So it is indeed terrible that folks say they care about animals, but are unable to reach the uneducated, the stubborn, etc.

Ok, it's not the best sentence. I still think it makes sense. It's terrible that nobody listens to people(vegan or not) who care about animals. There. I'm usually kind of anal about what I type. I was just in a hurry.

You haven't heard the sounds of Spring yet? Are you in the Southern Hemisphere? Everything is buzzing around here and there's baby birds galore! I can't keep the feeders full! I love it. I miss the Winter birds though. Especially the Juncos and the Brown Creepers.

Yeah, you got it.This is taking me back to English Comp.1!!

Thanks for trying to clarify in my absence. You're awesome!

So are you (better late than never, huh?)!