Heads up if you live in Oregon, especially Portland, for the past year there have been “animal rights activists” garnering signatures in Oregon on public transit and at events like no kings protests and farmers markets. They tell you the signatures are for an initiative to simply prevent animal abuse, but that’s a lie by omission. The bill is actually to criminalize any act that would kill an animal. It’s called IP28, the PEACE act. Not only does this completely misunderstand how disease control, veterinary practices, farms, and wildlife management work, it would directly strip indigenous people of their traditional hunting rights and food sovereignty.
When I point this out to them, they tell me “it’s ok, the bill wouldn’t affect reservations”. What, so it’s ok that it’s only on stolen land then??
The reservation I lived on as a child was not viable for hunting and fishing, there is not enough land to survive off of alone, which is why is why indigenous people are permitted to practice food sovereignty outside of just reservation land.
This act would also give police a direct excuse to arrest any indigenous person who has practiced their traditional hunting.
Please spread the word if you live in Oregon especially Portland, and please actually read petitions and forms before you sign them, many people are being misled by pushy and deceptive signature gatherers :(
