[Nancy1999]

Originally Posted by wildcard

Who are these commercial breeders who are disguising themselves as hobby breeders and exerting their influence over true hobby breeders? I am really curious about that... mostly because I always got the same impression about supporters of pet limit laws, etc.-- that they were being influenced by one or two large organizations via the use of propaganda. It would be funny to learn we are all just pawns in a battle between two monoliths.

Personally, I would much prefer to fix what appears to be an underfunded system-- the USDA inspection system-- which apparently needs work, than to create a whole new system. I don't build a new house every time mine needs repairs.

Commercial breeders hire lobbyists to spread propaganda, and misinformation. At one time I believed that it would be OK for animal rights groups and the commercial breeder to fight it out, but this was until I realized some extreme animal rights group are against any breeding, and as I said before, the small home breeder has no one watching their back. So you have extreme animal rights groups who would like to end all breeding and the commercial pet industry who would also like to put the home breeder out of business. Both money-backed organizations are after the home breeder. After all, if there were no home breeders, the pet industry could charge whatever they wanted for pets. That why I'm always suspicious when someone is screaming about the fact that this or that bill will hurt the home breeder, this is a very common technique used by the commercial breeder lobby. So this time I wanted to read the bill for myself and see if what they were saying about it was true, that why I wanted to talk about specific points in the bill. The commercial breeder's lobby always seems to spout three things, "We don't have a problem", and when that doesn't work anymore, "There are already laws in place," and of course, let's not forget, "This bill will effect the home breeder." This bill will have serious repercussions on the commercial breeder, not the home breeder.


I think it's great that you want to fix the USDA system. However, right now, Indiana wants to fix what it sees as a serious problem, state governments are free to set laws as they see fit, as long as the law at least meets Federal standards. Why should they have to wait for the Federal government to do something about it? Some states are more aware of the special problems that they have and should be able to address the problems in their own state.