Ballot initiative ip13 for Oregon and ip16 for Colorado(at the bottom). Even taking your livestock out of state to be slaughtered would be a crime, just slaughtering a cow to feed your own family, transporting animals, eating animals killed within the state or killing rats and mice could end up with you in jail for five years and/or a $125,000 fine. >Under ORS 167.320, it is a crime, and may be a felony, to intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly cause serious physical injury to an animal, or to cruelly cause the death of an animal, subject to the same exceptions included in ORS 167.315 and 167.335. **Once again, the proposed measure removes all of those exceptions. It would therefore be a crime, under this proposal, to slaughter livestock for food, or to kill rats, mice, or other vermin and pests**. the rats and mice in the burbs have become so bad from the homeless camps, without control they’d overrun everyone’s home. >ORS 167.333 makes sexual assault of an animal a felony. As currently defined, the crime applies to touching of the mouth, anus, or sex organs of an animal for the purpose arousing or gratifying the sexual desire of a person. **The statute does not apply to the use of animal products, and thus allows, for example, artificial insemination. The proposed measure would make many current practices for breeding pets, livestock, and horses a criminal offense**. >**The proposed measure would thus criminalize many common farming and ranching practices, as well as recreational and commercial hunting, fishing, and trapping, pest control, and many other practices that are now specifically authorized by law**. Insane. It’s the feudal system, it’s the kings animals and don’t kill any otherwise you’ll be imprisoned. >**Summary: Under current law, many activities that do or may kill or injure animals are lawful, including animal husbandry practices; slaughtering livestock and poultry; animal breeding practices; fishing, hunting, and trapping; wildlife management practices; rodeos; scientific and agricultural research and teaching; control of vermin and nuisance animals; reasonable handling, training techniques. Proposed measure would make those practices, and other common practices involving animals, criminal offenses if injury/ death occurs**. Criminalizes animal breeding practices for domestic, livestock, and equine animals that involve touching the mouth, anus, or sexual organs of the animal. Exception for “good veterinary practices” (undefined), self-defense. Applies to mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish. Elimination of hunting/ fishing licenses would remove funding from wildlife conservation efforts by Department of Fish and Wildlife. Other provisions. Even rodeos. >it is a misdemeanor to intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly injure an animal. Good animal husbandry practices are exempted, as are numerous practices set forth in ORS 167.335, including transportation of animals; rodeos; growing of poultry; the slaughter of animals by methods authorized by law; fishing, hunting, and trapping; lawful wildlife management; lawful scientific or agricultural research; control of vermin or pests; and reasonable handling and training techniques. **The proposed measure removes all of those exceptions**. >**If passed, IP13 would effectively shut down the state’s meat production. While Oregonians could still purchase meat imported from other states, eating home-grown animals would become a felony punishable by up to five years in prison, a $125,000 fine, or both** http://oregonvotes.org/irr/2022/013cbt.pdf Colorado: > Grass-roots activists are recruiting volunteers and starting to gather signatures for IP13 and **Colorado’s Initiative 16, both of which would redefine artificial insemination and castration of livestock as sexual assault**. Oregon’s proposal would also criminalize the slaughter of livestock, **while Colorado’s would prevent it until the animal has lived at least one-quarter of its natural lifespan**, which for cattle would be about five years. >Among the latest is American Agri-Women, whose president, Karolyn Zurn, said on April 27 **the Colorado proposal “is deceiving the voters to achieve an anti-meat agenda.**” At least Colorado’s is only anti-meat, Oregon’s also lets rodents run rampant which would cause all kinds of diseases. http://oregonvotes.org/irr/2022/013cbt.pdf https://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/2021/11/opinion-anti-hunting-ranching-initiative-would-devastate-oregons-family-farms.html https://www.farmprogress.com/livestock/national-animal-groups-shun-oregon-colorado-initiatives