If you ever wondered whether the right wing is totally heartless …
by digby
… or just mostly heartless, this clears it up:
For years, Missouri earned the dubious distinction as the nation’s “puppy mill capital” because its lax humane regulations and enforcement allowed dog breeders to raise puppies at low costs in terrible, overcrowded conditions. Last fall, Missouri voters approved a referendum to finally solve this problem — the Puppy Mill Cruelty Prevention Act — which mandates regular veterinarian inspections of breeding facilities and ensures a basic level of treatment for dogs, such keeping temperatures between 45 and 85 degrees. Tea party groups stridently opposed the referendum, arguing it was “just another example of big government meddling in people’s lives.” Now, capitalizing on the big gains they made in November, Republicans in the state legislature are poised to repeal the regulations Missouri’s voters enacted.
At this point, any pet store or person who buys dogs from Missouri should be boycotted and shunned. They have been notoriously cruel and inhumane for years and now they refuse to be regulated even slightly? Then they should be put out of business entirely.
People who are kind to animals are not necessarily decent people. But people who are cruel to animals definitely are not.
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