Animal rights advocates move closer to banning hunting in Oregon
BY Herschel Smith
1 week, 2 days ago
Oregon voters have moved one step closer this week to potentially banning hunting, fishing and animal agriculture.
On Thursday, activists submitted a final batch of signatures to state officials for a ballot measure that would effectively criminalize such practices.
The proposal, known as the People for the Elimination of Animal Cruelty Exemptions (PEACE) Act, has not officially qualified for the ballot yet. State officials have until August to decide whether it goes to a popular vote in November elections.
The measure, Initiative Petition 28, would remove hunting, fishing and livestock husbandry exceptions from the state’s animal abuse law.
“We want to see the state of Oregon stop killing animals,” David Michelson, who is spearheading the campaign, told KGW of the effort, his third attempt to get such rules on the ballot.
Lol. This not only effects hunting and fishing, this would put an end to cattle ranching or farmers harvesting chickens for meat.
Make no mistake about it. This is about worshiping the creation rather than the creator.
I suppose there is a little bit of good news. “Twenty-two states recognize the right to hunt and fish in their constitution, according to the National Rifle Association, while 11 states have bans on Sunday hunting.”
On July 9, 2026 at 12:35 am, Ted said:
Watch deer populations explode to the point where food runs out and they starve in the winter.
On July 9, 2026 at 1:53 am, Skid Marx said:
It sounds like something out of the Babylon Bee.
CCP won’t have to fire a shot to take the Pacific Northwest.
On July 9, 2026 at 3:24 am, Dan said:
Just more proof that leftists are mostly insane…with the few that are not being pure distilled evil.
On July 9, 2026 at 7:05 am, mike fink said:
The 1840’s Transcendentalist cult in New England, which was a proto Marxist movement, thought like these people did and a group of them attempted to run a collective farm for themselves that used no animal labor, food or inputs. It was a complete failure and the women frequently borrowed eggs and such from normal farm neighbors before the experiment collapsed.
Oregon is at once trying to further purge itself into Marxist Utopia while doing something they know will drive many or most of the remaining normal people out of the state. The result will be that they will become quite vulnerable to food disruptions. It will be a self-destruction that would be interesting to watch from afar.
On July 9, 2026 at 4:34 pm, scott s. said:
Read the initiative, and it does read like all animals are considered to be pet dogs. As regards reptiles, my wife doesn’t care for geckos in the house and kills them. That would make her a criminal in Oregon. Here in Hawaii, we like to follow Oregon whenever possible but there would probably be a problem preventing Hawaiians from pig hunting/cooking kalua pig.
On July 9, 2026 at 5:33 pm, Paul B said:
Man, what is in the water out there anyway. Seems the whole coast is going nuts.
On July 10, 2026 at 8:48 am, Wes said:
@scott s
“Here in Hawaii, we like to follow Oregon whenever possible…”
I’m sincerely curious about this. Do you mean your elected government, or does the general citizenry have a ‘thing’ for Oregon?
On July 10, 2026 at 1:23 pm, T Man from Texas said:
If they want to stick to those principled positions, the import to the state of all animal products (dairy, eggs, leather, meat, Jello, hell, you name it) should be banned as well. Let’s see them deal with that.
On July 13, 2026 at 8:27 am, Fred said:
They love to elevate the lesser creature above the man given dominion. It’s an attempt to steal the rights and duties granted in the Noahic covenant (Genesis 9).