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1998 BALLOT INITIATIVES
Cockfighting
- Arizona and Missouri approved ballot initiatives to ban cockfighting.
Trapping
- Alaska voters rejected a proposal to ban wolf snaring.
- California voters passed Proposition 4, banning the use of body-gripping traps
and two types of poison.
Animal Farming
- California voters approved Proposition 6, the Prohibition of Horse Slaughter
and Sale of Horsemeat for Human Consumption Act of 1998.
- Colorado voters approved an initiative requiring large hog feeding operations
to be responsible for the wastes they produce by providing strict regulations
for the treatment and disposal of that waste.
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(current congressional session)Bills Introduced
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Standing under AWA
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Animal CrueltyOwnership v. Guardianship
Personhood for Animals
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