You Can Still Eat This Corgi In Pennsylvania, Thanks To The NRA

[Solaran_X]

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/201...ks-to-the-nra/

Quoted in its entirety so those who don't want to give TP site traffic:

Earlier this month, a lopsided majority of the Pennsylvania Senate passed a bill that, among other things, would have subjected anyone who “[b]reeds, keeps, sells, offers for sale or transfers a dog or cat for the purpose of human consumption” to up to seven years in prison. This proposed ban was inspired by a series of investigations by the Pennsylvania SPCA which uncovered kennels where dogs were bred for meat, including one ten year-old incident in Philadelphia where a single kennel kept 150 dogs.

It is currently legal to slaughter and eat dogs or cats in Pennsylvania, and, thanks in large part to lobbying from the National Rifle Association, it will remain so. Although the animal cruelty bill passed the state senate by a 36-12 margin — and even though Gov. Tom Corbett (R) was expected to sign it — legislative leaders in the state house did not include this bill in the final list of legislation that would receive a vote before the end of the house’s 2013-2014 session. The NRA swiftly claimed victory for killing what it viewed as a “misguided” bill.

The NRA’s primary objection to the animal cruelty bill was a separate provision banning what are known as “pigeon shoots” (although it is worth nothing that the NRA assembled a coalition of groups to oppose the bill that includes dog breeders opposed to additional regulation of kennels). According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, pigeon shoots are “a practice where live pigeons are launched from electronic boxes while shooters fire rounds at short distance. Injured birds that land in the shooting circle get their necks broken – often by teenagers. Wounded birds by the hundreds fly off to die slow deaths.” Animal rights activists have been working to ban this practice for the last 27 years.

Nevertheless, the NRA described pigeon shoots as an “ethical” practice. They also argue that if this “traditional shooting sport” is banned then it will lead to a “slippery slope” where other firearms activity will also be banned.

The defeat of this animal cruelty bill wasn’t the NRA’s only victory this past week. Pennsylvania lawmakers also snuck a provision allowing the NRA to sue cities, townships and counties with gun laws into a bill targeting the theft of copper wire and other valuable metal.

[streaker69]

Thank god for that, cause I'd hate to see the price of chinese food go up.

[Solaran_X]

And once again, they fail to mention that the NRA (and other groups, but they really seem fixated on the NRA) can only sue municipalities that have broken state preemption law.

[pennlineman]

Notice how the attention is focused on the NRA and not so much the issues at hand. Anything we can do to piss these people off makes me happy.

[stainless]

I dislike eating Corgi's. They squirm too much when you hold their little legs apart...

[mmi]

gov stay the hell out of my bedroom and my refrigerator !!!

if the economy gets any worse you might be glad to eat a dog or cat

[streaker69]

gov stay the hell out of my bedroom and my refrigerator !!!

if the economy gets any worse you might be glad to eat a dog or cat

Damn right! Dog was good enough for William Wallace!

[unclejumbo]

I dislike eating Corgi's. They squirm too much when you hold their little legs apart...

Well you're eat'n 'em wrong. Dats what de sheep is fer. Da corgis go in burlin water to get da skin off firs den A day in da smokr finishes em up jest right.

[pennlineman]

Well you're eat'n 'em wrong. Dats what de sheep is fer. Da corgis go in burlin water to get da skin off firs den A day in da smokr finishes em up jest right.

I prefer stir fried with just a hint of soy sauce.

[middlefinger]

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