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It's already passed in the house and now goes to the Senate. Many reptiles, insects, birds and rodents/small mammals impacted as well. Basically any pet that isn't a cat or dog. They used the same trick they used to attach the voting fortification bill to the NASA funding bill to attach this to an existing bill. The Competes Act HR-4521. Contact your state Senator and tell them not to vote in favor of this bill!
For those who don't want to watch the videos... basically the government wants to do "background checks" on new-to-the-us species in order to make sure they aren't disastrous to the local environment, farms, waterways, and the health of humans, animals and vegetation, etc. before allowing people to have them as pets or as part of hobbies.
Essentially, while it's not practically to do background checks on each individual fish and give them visas like we do to human foreigners, the bill is suggesting we disallow importing by species until that particular species is deemed safe.
Liberals want to allow everyone and everything into this country without check... I'm not surprised a bill like this would be proposed.
I am all for protecting endangered species, banning unlawful activities on our waters or illegal animal/fish trade.
And what's wrong with a three-year emergency ban on the importation of wildlife that pose imminent threats, including to human health, and laws that prohibit the transportation across state lines of species listed as injurious under the Lacey Act?
Or addressing illegal wildlife trafficking? Or curbing the spread of zoonotic diseases? Or ending seafood fraud?
Or demanding increased traceability of seafood imports and transparency at sea to ensure that all seafood served in the US is safe, legally caught, responsibly sourced, and honestly labeled?
That's what this is about. Although I agree that Lacey Act should be revised.
Many invasive species were not only allowed by the fed govt but brought here intentionally by it. This would include everything from plants to people. It is not a good (competent) steward of any resource.
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For those who don't want to watch the videos... basically the government wants to do "background checks" on new-to-the-us species in order to make sure they aren't disastrous to the local environment, farms, waterways, and the health of humans, animals and vegetation, etc. before allowing people to have them as pets or as part of hobbies.
Essentially, while it's not practically to do background checks on each individual fish and give them visas like we do to human foreigners, the bill is suggesting we disallow importing by species until that particular species is deemed safe.
Liberals want to allow everyone and everything into this country without check... I'm not surprised a bill like this would be proposed.
They word it in a benign way but basically it will ban much of the tropical fish, reptile, bird and other exotic pet industries. It's unnecessary and needlessly authoritarian. The guy in the first video is a flaming leftist and he doesn't like it either.
Don’t be so sure. I’ll bet you three to one odds that your goldfish is on record as voting for Biden.
Twice.
Immediately after swimming across the border from Mexico to California.
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