Prop. 6

["Kathy Myers" <kathy@nvolve.com>]

>In a message dated 98-11-02 09:27:56 EST, trails@jps.net writes:
>
><< and unscrupless horse buyers that buy you critter and then drive to the
> auction. There have also been reports of horses dissapearing and just never
> being seen again. >>

>Heidi wrote:
>That's already illegal, and a pretty serious crime at that.  What makes anyone
>think that more legal verbiage will make it any different, especially
>something as flawed as California's Prop 6?  Better to spend your energy on
>better detection and enforcement.

I think the point is it's not that big of a crime here in
California to buy a horse under false pretenses and send
it to slaughter.  This prop just trys to give the owner
some sort of recourse if they find out that a horse they
sold or donated in good faith ends up being sent off instead.

The verbage of Prop 6 is not that long.  If you want to read
more about this (and other propositions) ... including the
late contributions over $1000 (can be REALLY interesting)
and who they came from try:

http://www.ss.ca.gov

Click on the link to "Late Contributions" and go from there.
Interesting stuff.  Or go straight to:

http://Vote98.ss.ca.gov/lcrV98/home.htm

I'm not sure Prop 6 is a bad thing.  It might be a baby step,
but at least it's in the right direction.  There is nothing in
Prop 6 that says anything about reclassification of horses from
livestock to pets or anything else.  Matter of fact, it states
specifically that the definition of "the horse" stays the same
as it's always been.

:)  - Kat Myers
in San Mateo, CA with Magnum the TB ex-racer
and Mr Maajistic... aka Blue