Campaign promises to create more jobs as a priority seems to have taken a back seat to Rep. Curt Oda's first order of business of torture and killing animals and introducing a bill to dismiss existing animal cruelty laws in Utah.
SOURCE:
http://animallawcoalition.com/animal-cruelty/article/1504
Oda wants to amend the state's animal cruelty law, Section 76-9-301, to exempt "pests" and "feral" animals from the definition of animal. This means that to the extent they were protected, these animals would no longer be protected by the state's animal cruelty law.
Oda is reported to have told a local newspaper that "feral" animals and "pests" could be shot with a bow and arrow, for example, decapitated or clubbed to death.
We ask that you leave existing animal cruetly laws as they are and do not support Rep. Curt Oda's bill, H.B 210. Please start encouraging people to SAVE lives- not TAKE them.
Utah House of Representatives
Speaker of the House
Rebecca D. Lockhart
350 North State, Suite 350
P.O. Box 145030
Salt Lake City, Utah 84114
Phone: (801) 538-1029
Fax: (801) 326-1544
Email: blockhart@utah.gov
