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By JASON NOBLEThe Star’s Jefferson City correspondent
JEFFERSON CITY | The forces for and against Missouri’s Proposition B are making their cases with cute and cuddly puppies.
But make no mistake, the contest to convince voters is a down and dirty dogfight.
Prop B on the Nov. 2 statewide ballot will ask voters whether to enact the “Puppy Mill Cruelty Prevention Act,” a set of laws that would substantially sharpen regulations on dog breeders.
Proponents, led by national animal-rights groups, contend new laws are critical to ensure humane treatment within Missouri’s vast dog-breeding industry.
“The regulations on the books now … ensure that dogs in these facilities survive, but don’t do much more than that,” said Barbara Schmitz, campaign manager for Missourians for the Protection of Dogs. “We’re trying to insert animal-welfare provisions into the large-scale breeding equation.”
Breeders and animal-agriculture trade groups counter that the laws will devastate reputable family businesses and raise the price of puppies at pet stores, but do nothing to stop bad breeders.
“What this does is make regulation so strict on breeders that it will basically put them out of business,” said Anita Andrews, director of the Alliance for Truth, a campaign opposing the ballot measure.
Using Missouri’s initiative petition process, supporters gathered signatures to put the proposal on the ballot. If approved, it would take effect in November 2011.
National groups, including the Humane Society of the United States and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, are spending millions of dollars to campaign for its passage.
They say that it’s necessary because previous reform efforts have failed, despite Missouri’s reputation as the “puppy-mill capital of the country” and decades of evidence of animal mistreatment at some breeding operations.
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