NRA Protects Pennsylvania’s Right to Eat Dogs
Hooray, Pennsylvania state Senate! You came close to doing a solid for our animal friends — you passed a bill that would result in a prison sentence for anyone who “[breeds,] keeps, sells, offers for sale or transfers a dog or cat for the purpose of human consumption.” Good on ya! And Pennsylvania actually needed that, seeing as how state SPCA investigators found a number of operations where people actually were doing that. Even Republican Gov. Tom Corbett was expected to sign it, because really, who wants dogs and cats being bred as food?
Oh, yes, of course: the National Rifle Association. They aren’t really all that big on dog and cat eating, actually, but the animal cruelty bill got killed in the Pennsylvania House because it also included a provision that would have banned “pigeon shoots,”
And what exactly are pigeon shoots?
the Philadelphia Inquirer’s Amy Worden describes thusly:
a practice where live pigeons are launched from electronic boxes while shooters fire rounds at short distance. Injured birds that land in the shooting circle get their necks broken - often by teenagers. Wounded birds by the hundreds fly off to die slow deaths.
That’s not hunting. That’s an activity for psychopaths who feel shooting clay targets doesn’t cause enough suffering to get them off.