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Urban Allies stand in the gap for ag as proponents gather signatures for 16
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The PAUSE initiative is slated to go to voters in 2022. Ag producers, veterinarians, animal breeders and more are concerned about the potential consequences of the act. Getty images
Melody Villard doesn’t know whether to accuse the organizers of the PAUSE initiative of incompetence or resoluteness. Either way, if voters approved it, she believes the state’s agricultural industry as we know it would collapse.
“It’s either well thought out to cripple an industry,” Villard said, “or it’s not well thought out at all, and it cripples our industry.”
Villard is a Moffat County Commissioner, but she says “our” because she runs Villard Ranch, a Craig sheep operation that’s been in her family for a century. The ag industry is so rankled by ballot Initiative 16 that a coalition of livestock and farming groups protested before the state’s Title Board, stating that the name was a political catchphrase. The name, Protect Animals from Unnecessary Suff
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Within the space of just five weeks, we find ourselves again defending Colorado ranchers and farmers against an irrational political salvo (March 19, “Governor blunders with ‘MeatOut Day’ proclamation”).
This time, the issue is a ballot initiative with an appealing title: “Protect Animals from Unnecessary Suffering and Exploitation (PAUSE).” Heck, who doesn’t want to do that?
But the title is misleading at best. The proposed statute would decimate the agricultural industry and Colorado’s economy while making it very expensive to eat meat – most of which would be old and tough.
Colorado Initiative 16 would tighten rules on treatment of livestock
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Direct democracy came to Colorado with the first ballot initiative that went before voters in 1880, an amendment regarding Uniform Taxes. It read: To Submit to the Qualified Electors of the State of Colorado an Amendment to Section Three of Article 10 of the Constitution of the State of Colorado, concerning Revenue. SECTION 3. All taxes shall be uniform upon the same class of subjects within the territorial limits of the authority levying the tax, and shall be levied and collected under general laws, which shall prescribe such regulations as shall secure a just valuation for taxation all property, real and personal; Provided, That mines and mining claims bearing gold, silver and other precious metals (except the net proceeds and surface improvements thereof), shall be exempt from taxation for the period of ten years from the date of the adoption this Constitution; and thereafter may be taxed as provided by law; And, provided further, That the household goods of every person being the
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