AlyS's comments:

on Candidate Conversation: John Kitzhaber

Well for one, Dudley got asked what what his influences through childhood were on his ideas for tax strategy (really?), Kitzhaber got asked very specifically what policies he'd put in place for disaster relief.

I too noticed a bit of a difference there. Very odd.

posted 1 year, 6 months ago
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on Leading a Horse to Slaughter

There are several realities here. One, horses still go to slaughter, they just get hauled a lot farther than they need to and they go to slaughterhouses that are not regulated by us.

We have an overabundance of horses, both domestic and feral, and rescues simply can't keep up with them all. We can euthanize all of them, but that's going to be introducing more chemicals into the environment than we need to, as rendered, euth'ed horses are turned into fertilizer and other products.

Why not have slaughter here in the US, in well-regulated plants, and rather than get paid to drop your animals off, you pay a small fee? If you need assistance, then perhaps have vouchers or pickup available to you. Implemented properly, this can help reduce the number of BLM horses unwanted in pens, it can reduce the number of horses set loose because they can't be cared for anymore, and can reduce the horses that end up starving in their pastures because their owners can't feed them anymore.

posted 2 years, 10 months ago
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