A minimal standard of care the casey opposes it since 2009 the a k c as opposed over 100 different bills regulations or ordinances that protect dogs in 2012 alone the a k c opposed to nebraska state bill that would require commercial breeders to have regular on site visits by a veterinarian a Louisiana State bill that would prohibit all dog owners from stacking crates a rhode island state bill that the a k c deemed dangerous that would make it unlawful for dog owners to keep a dog confined in a pen cage or other shelter for more than 14 hours a proposed ordinance in Shelby County tennessee that would make it a violation to leave a Companion Animal unattended in a vehicle for more than one hour when the temperature is above 70 degrees or below 35 degrees why is the american kennel club. The dogs best friend opposing this legislation that says that. Youve got to have a vet examine these dogs or you cant breathe them every single cycle or you cant have more than 50 breeding females in operation while the group well it was because theyre making money from those large scale operations. While the public does not have access to a k c inspection reports many pet Stores Across the United States emphasize to their potential customers that their facilities are a k. C. Approved and inspected one such company is pet land the largest chain of pet Stores Selling puppies in the United States almost petland are independently owned and operated the companys relationship with the a k c is a central focus in nearly every store. Its naaman usual to see a dog thats a case a registered in a pet store. A case could be targeting this major Distribution Channel saying were not going to endorse pet stores if we see our dogs in those stores because we dont feel that is a good means by which a dog is being raced. And unfortunately had not taken that position. Were your thoughts well. So i thought. This is really the only. Thing thats right. I actually bought my 1st dog from pet way and in my head i was saving that dog from the cage only because it was way too big for the small cage there was a there was poop and he just like sick and i went back to visit and visit and visit well there is very pushy if youve ever been to the pathway and they want you to buy the dog no matter what and you know they give you all these options i would visit the dog it just started me looking through the cage. I code you want to go to a puppy play room and then they give you a toy to get to play with this dog and you started falling in love with the dogs and then youre broke and so theyre like heres a credit card if you will help you pay for the dog and he would really love to go home with you and so theyre trying to play on your emotions and on your pocketbook your reasoning apparently in store with your family and you cant help but fall in love you found that for your family and now maybe you are asking yourself where did this puppy come from lets take a look at the journey when puppies make before writing our story. While pet land maintains that it does not purchase from substandard breeders theres no doubt that the vast majority of puppies sold in their stores come from large scale commercial kennels where the parents of those puppies will spend their whole lives in a cage. In 2009 the Humane Society of the United States released an exhaustive investigation into shipments over 3 months of more than 15000. 00 puppies across the country the report determined that 95 percent of the puppies in pet land stores come from large scale commercial kennels and i work at a gym right next to a pet land and i see it all the time and i have even stopped and said you know even to a young couple you know with kids hey beef do me a favor before you go in there you know google puppy mills oh we know a populous us why are you going to buy a dog with. No rescues that have puppies right now what are you looking for a lot of the dogs that are purchased in pet stores we we end up with them because the families can afford their medical care they have some birth to factor some chronic problem or. Parvo or anything that these animals can pick up in the actual mill and they always seem to be you know we can state always. Most of the puppies that are coming from these large Scale Factory farming kind of operations are being sold in pet stores so when you go into a. Star and you see that beautiful little puppy thats a jumping out and oh really wants the attention from you know most people have no idea that the mother and father are back somewhere any factory farm type a setting where it can be on horrendous its not just pet lamb franchises they get the vast majority of their inventory from the primary states for puppy mills independent pet stores choose to seek out these same states a stark example of the supply chain leads directly from Holmes County ohio to a single pet store in patterson new jersey d n g petite pups inspection reports obtained by ohio voters for Companion Animals show that in 2012 over 300. 00 puppies from puppy mills and Holmes County were sold wholesale to d n g only one reason would seemingly compel the owner of d. M. G. To seek out breeders located over 7 hours away the price for breeders simply selling to a pet shop thats not about placing that animal with a family for the rest of the life thats really about the money paths are happy for our puppy mill puppies because a reputable breeder somebody who cares about their animals wants to know where theyre going and any breeder that is in it for the love of dogs and they they love what theyre doing theyre good breeder theyre going to have as many questions for you as you have for them no good reputable breeder will sell a dog or any internet or sell a dog to a broker to sell to a pet store thats a good breeder or one of those who you are you always have to go and see the parents of the dog that youre purchasing if a breeder does not want you to see the conditions that the parents are living in youre almost guaranteed its a puppy mill. This is a largely a marketing sort of enterprise were people can register the murderers the puppies and you get the halo effect but this isnt a case in register dollars or litter when in reality it has no practical meaning when it comes to Animal Welfare they see papers mean absolutely nothing you know and when you come push comes to shove a hasty when theyre backed into a corner was and as i said do with humaneness or the quality of the dog only means who the mother and the father there are in favor of breeding dogs and the more dogs that are bred the more money they make if those dogs are registered with the case they for years and years and years in fact even to this day registration. Registration fees and puppies are subsidizing the dog shows that the a hasty puts on because the registration fees for dog shows dont we the amount of money for the expenses of putting them on so historically they have always subsidized their dog shows for registry fees so this is why theyre going to see enough of their own money and thats what i always say when people go to the westminister dog show go in there knowing that this show has been subsidized by the croly of puppy mills because the a c. Will not stop papering dogs from commercial dog leaders and they oppose legislation when you go to improve the standards of care my 2010 missouri had an estimated 3000 commercial dog breeders and was the largest supplier of puppies to pet Stores Across the country the nearly 6500 breeders with the u. S. D. A. License was more than the next 3 states combined in the hopes of improving the lives of dogs living in missouri puppy mills national and state Animal Welfare organizations focused on a Ballot Initiative that would later become known as proposition be over 190000 signatures from missouri residents were collected and the measure made it to the ballot in the twin. 10 election. From the party no fear is going to be good no for trying to dismiss united on the. Thanks scoop you know it might seem it was awful you know most of it is not fun to hear something you know its just. Its just stupid to give it to the full time boy turd compared. To globalization the dollars a share you know what is happening in the world is college drifting apart in a lot of different ways we look into it because theres an Economic Force behind it has always. Been there so to johnson. I just got out of prison for. 41 gives. It to me and so. I got arrested for it to. Go on like this everything was taken out of. My working moms it was. Meant to snow man it looks a little bit like me. About. Homicide i want to. Work hard tough. So you got. Something not too good. Not. Good and im afraid to try to try to give. You a good something right to do. Is you know media a reflection of reality. In a world transformed. What will make you feel safe. Isolation community. Are you going the right way or are you being led. Away. What is true what is faith. In the world corrupted you need to descend. To join us in the depths. Or a maid in the shallowest. What politicians do. They put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. So when you want to be president im sure. Or somehow want to. Have to go right to beatrice dislikable tree in the morning cant be good. Im interested always in the waters and how. This should. Probably be was something that was in the works for many years because missouri is the puppy mill capital of the United States probably simply sought to impose. Humane breeding standards and limits on the size of the puppy mills you know what i started out here paying for all this stuff and literature and pictures of puppy mills things i bet after 2 weeks i just forgot all that literature it was a copy of prop because it wasnt that people wanted to support bobby bills or call the dogs it was is this a stereotype that it affected other things it was a campaign of fear and misinformation fear that the was going to mysteriously morph into a ban on all rearing of animals and agriculture you know they said that this would affect farm animals you know it and then of course when they were confronted on it and showed the wall they said well its a slippery slope but there was still continue to go into rural areas and convinced everybody that this was going to shut down the family farm and it just created mass hysteria and it made a really Difficult Campaign it didnt deal with cattle deal with pigs it india with chickens it in the old any other species the language was explicit and anyone whos a 1st year law student could say with definitive precision that it just applied to dogs in space a clear way to one of the dominoes in what i call the line of dominoes out here you know eliminating all of domesticated animals you know dogs cats then you want the livestock arena forces and so forth and into Ballot Measure Campaign you dont necessarily need to convince people that your position is right you just need to sow enough confusion so that people maintain the status quo and vote no clothes no way to defend happy mouths so instead they want to change the subject to all these other animals that people will respond to an emotional way this isnt really about puppies this is about your chicken and your beef and your pork and this group wants to take those off your dinner plate its about emotional trigger that theyre going to that they didnt. Yes those buttons to get people to respond emotionally oh its basically a fun line i mean lets just cut to the chase may this proposition with about dogs but initially wants you to think its about all these other animals because that will scare the hell it. Really is an issue for anyone to like speak meat protein in their diet thank you very much thank you kelly smith marketing and commodities director for Missouri Farm Bureau much more to come on this and other issues as we broadcast from the Missouri Farm Bureau offices here in Jefferson City missouri stay with us its half time on average. Interestingly my wife and i had made a plan for we settle we put on a piece of paper what our dream of a farm was. After a long search i was showed this far and it matched exactly. So thats why we here. We lived our lives here pretty much you know or happy leave with we raised our family we raised our kids we feel very comfortable here. We didnt feel threatened at all you know and i mean i would have never at that time suggested to you that clean air was a vital important thing in my life. They were going to raise hogs ok and at the time i did not know how many hogs they were going to raise and it turned out that now they raise 80000. 00 hogs and 3 miles north of. The farmland food facility in milan missouri is owned by Smithfield Foods the largest hog processor in the world with revenues exceeding 13000000000. 00 in 2013. The operation north of me is called green hills. There isnt a single pig in there that ever seen the green hills there isnt a single pig down there that ever sees the valley. So these are wonderful names. But in this are these factory buildings where these hogs are housed in these big barns with little fresh air with no sunlight with Little Movement with no grass no nothing you hear the name valleyview and you think all little piggy riding on grass you know just kind of smooching out there living in the sun you dont see that. These are feeder pigs in the amount so weights are just incredible and you sit in your backyard with your family and you eat dinner or you sit outside on a warm summer night and all over sudden this thing rolls in and i were caught in a trespass it just trespass on your property and ingall see you and its there and i mean its just like its just like if a visitor coming that you have not invited relationship with the Missouri Farm Bureau radically changed when he began to complain about the daily waste and odors emitting from Smithfield Foods that tree farm while he assumed the farm bureau would support a local independent farmer against his new corporate neighbor ralph was left to fight alone. I felt abandoned and also felt that i was working for the wrong organization for for so many years because all of a sudden this operation this organization backed allen and it supposedly is a Farm Organization these supposedly supports individual independent farmers and all of a sudden they were siding with industry and theyre siding with industry to this very day they campaigned against prop b. Began immediately after it was approved for the ballot at a gathering of the most powerful agricultural forces in missouri at the Stinson Morrison and hecker law firm in addition to members of the dog breeding industry the meeting included the leadership at the Missouri Farm Bureau the Missouri Pork Producers Association and the missouri soybean is so. At this meeting these groups agreed to fight prop be in a coordinated effort with the dog breeding industry. 2 front groups emerge from the meeting one which would eventually be called missouri farmers care and the alliance for truth while these front groups seem to have sprung out of thin air it was actually a highly coordinated effort financed largely by corporate agriculture nearly 82 percent of total contributions to missouri farmers care originated from 3 corporate agriculture trade groups and their respective Political Action committees. The Missouri Farm Bureau the missouri pork producers and the Missouri Soybean Association while the missouri farmers Care Campaign highlighted the positive role of missouri farmers in society the alliance for truth was focused on misrepresenting the clear language improper be the majority of the funding for the alliance for truth was funneled through missouri farmers care by the same agricultural trade groups the trade groups involved represent the interests of their member corporations in missouri these corporations include some of the largest agribusiness is in the United States month sento Tyson Cargill and Smithfield Foods while these trade groups use their vast Financial Resources opposing prop b. The corporations that ultimately provided the majority of the funding for the campaign remained silent simply put without the Financial Support of corporate agriculture the puppy mills of missouri would not have had the ability to mount the alliance for truth or missouri farmers care which were largely responsible for the opposition to proposition b. And lions for truth that could be for anything you know but they cant call themselves you know friend group in favor of herding dogs. So they have to come up with them other word to just totally distract you from the issue at hand its not about the dogs its about liberalism growth of government intrusion into your life during has a proud tradition of dog breeding for hunting home companionship and just best friends to enforce existing laws against animal abuse but vote no to the Big Government liberal is on proposition paid for by and large for true Mark Paterson treasurer i mean they would be fending of those one thing i mean alliance for truth is literally just a front so there has been a tremendous amount a shocking amount of organized opposition to efforts to increase the standards of care for dogs bred in commercial breeding facilities and most of that opposition quite frankly is coming from huge agricultural groups and industries these are groups that have nothing to do with dogs have to do is look at whos funding these to see whos really benefiting from them its not the individual farmers and ranchers who you know may believe some of the messaging that these groups are putting forward but its really the Major Players in big guy with business who are benefiting and its the industry defense thats going on its not to protect the poor rancher i mean those guys are getting screwed by have to stink interest in the future of this farm and the future of this community corporation. Their interest is making money their interest is not in the community their interest is not what is being left behind community interest. Is 0. Product be very specific it was a bill that he addressed commercial breeding dogs not chickens not cows not pigs but thats what the opposition said thats the misinformation that they gave to people in the state of missouri to scare people it was purely fear tactics on the. Parts and it really ended up being at the expense of the thousands of dogs that suffer on a daily basis in the state of missouri every signature to be on the ballot was signed by a missouri every vote that passed the law was passed by a missouri Rosie Missourians here and this was not i doubt a state you know like you say no those are the same interests that you know they might have right in the money so we can get the word out that they didnt go to the polls obviously it was the sorra residents who voted for this. Waiver soon oh you know it was no other. Choice by 51. 00 of the have percent became very close unfortunately because of those mass hysteria that was just being spread in the rural areas and there really do people really believe i mean i talked to him one on one that they really believed this was going to close down the farms it had me bake you for joining us all i care on a dairy governor jay nixon will he find a bill changing proposition b. Even though voters already approved it prop b. S. During the emotions of missourians on both sides of the issue but it was ultimately approved by 51 percent of voters the thought of altering it is an outrage and the wall supporters going to only a couple of 100 lawmakers have come to treated their judgment or their judgment about a 1000000 voters nancy weller says she cant bear to see another dog pulled out of a puppy mill she and more than a 1000000 other missouri voters pushed for prop be the very bill wall makers are now working to change the ink wasnt drawing on the formalizing of the final Election Results when state lawmakers in missouri said were going to repeal probably several of them you think its bills to repeal probably in its entirety immediately have to go to the people you know were not out to put these people out of business for say we just. One of them to comply with good standards here but instead they wanted to repeal the whole thing they threw it all out it was just ridiculous 5 months after missouri voters approved a new puppy mill law the law is changing they even changed the name of the long puppy mill cruelty back to the canine coolly prevention act and it does remove the breeding dogs limit the requirements of the Living Conditions of animals it is a constitutional process and when citizens decide they can do that the legislature should defer to the will of the people how do you run a government when the voters go to the polls they will learn something new is just ignore there is an election thats the way things run and then i have to think what is best for these new normals you know can we swallow our pride and sit down and work out something earn going to take the high road and say no no were taking everything we want all i know you have to do whats best for you might as well you got into this. 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