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Originally Posted by Sparky
I missed when you said "interstate commerce" in the first post. I see now. You're certainly right about the breeders going out of business. The laws aren't that hard on ferrets, which seems like the species everyone has complained about the most so far.
This is probably only happening because they figure that the multitudes that hate snakes/reptiles will be in favor of it. Because the rest of us are "nutjobs" anyways.  |
That is EXACTLY what they are counting on-that the public's fear and hatred of snakes, and of reptiles in general, will help support their cause, and that there won't be much backlash against this. They depend on fear-mongering from the news media in much the same way the anti-dog people do. And this is FEDERAL, not a state law, like California's ban on ferrets(one of only two states who've failed to acknowledge that these are NOT wild animals), which means it would affect all 50 states and all US territories. Many boid species are not yet well-established as captive populations in the US and still depend on new bloodlines from imports to strengthen their captive genetic base here in this country, and so those would become extremely inbred. Of course, with no outlet for their animals, most breeders would stop breeding snakes anyway.
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