I just got my most recent issue of Reptiles magazine in the mail today. On pages 12-13, there was an interesting and fairly provocative article about S373, HR669 and the like. It pretty much restated the general consensus of BP.net. It was talking about how HSUS and PETA are stirring all this trouble up. One of the best quotes of the whole article "Many herpers and their families still naively send money to the HSUS to fuel its fight with us thinking the money goes towards saving abandoned puppies at local shelters." It's is great that things like that are views shared by the whole reptile industry, not just BP.net. It talked about what Bill Nelson has done to start this bill.
One of the most interesting points was that part of the reason that politicians are doing this and being so anti-reptile is that they are older and grew up in the generation that generally believes snakes are very dangerous. That is who a large majority of the voting demographic is, so they are just trying to buy votes.
I am very glad that the reptile nation as a whole is on the same page as far as who the "enemy" is, what specifically they are doing wrong, and what we can do to help.
I apologize for the rambling, this article just really struck me.
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