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Bill: Exotic Animals
Details
Submitted by[?]: Gluaiseacht Shaoráil DhaonlathachIt
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: August 2658
Description[?]:
| As long as these animals are not endangered, keeping exotic animals should be permitted. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding the keeping of exotic animals.
Old value:: Only zoos or zoological institutions are allowed to keep exotic animals.
Current: Everyone may keep exotic animals, but the trade in exotic animals is regulated by the government.
Proposed: Everyone may keep exotic animals, the trade in exotic animals is unregulated.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 05:00:11, October 29, 2008 CET | From | Kirlawan People's Justice Party | To | Debating the Exotic Animals |
| Message | Strongly opposed. As the saying goes, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Exotic animals are by definition exotic; many of them are not acclimated to our biome. Much worse, it often happens that, if the exotic animals should escape from captivity, they will have no suitable native predators to keep their numbers in check. A population explosion ensues, where the invasive animals become a massive horde of pests, driving many native species to extinction. The reflexive reaction of intentionally introducing a new predator for them, effectively pours fuel onto the fire. And such escapes from captivity, unless the animals are being held in a zoo with appropriate control measures, are merely a matter of time. OOC: three examples that come to mind immediately are rabbits in Australia since 1859, cane toads in Australia since 1935, and killer bees in the Americas since 1956. In each case, colossal amounts of money have been spent to try to control them and to limit the damage that they do. And in each case, these efforts have failed to remove or reduce the pests, nor even to stop their continuing spread. The best that can be accomplished is merely to try to slow down the rate of their ongoing increase. How much wiser and easier and cheaper it could have been, if any of these introductions had simply been prevented beforehand.... |
| Date | 06:33:40, October 29, 2008 CET | From | Gluaiseacht Shaoráil DhaonlathachIt | To | Debating the Exotic Animals |
| Message | We believe that it\'s the right of our people to keep reptiles, tropical birds etc as a hobby. Nothing wrong with that. No doom-mongering is needed here. If things get out of hand we should regulate the trade. OCC: Yes, sure but your example proves the rule. There are always possibilities that escaped exotics breed well in their new habitat. They often do not succeed but if they do survive it\'s not dangerous by definition. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 316 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 241 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 160 |
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