Following the rejection of the Colorado Initiative #16 (PAUSE) by the Supreme Court of that state, an Oregon activist organization End Animal Cruelty, is proposing a ballot initiative that would effectively close down the livestock industry in the state. Designated IP-13, the initiative would require 112,000 signatures to appear on the November 2022 Oregon ballot.
Among other considerations, the proposed bill would ban farming, ranching, hunting, trapping, pest control or killing any animal for any reason. The proposal also includes the rejected Colorado requirement relating to "sexual assault of an animal" that would ban artificial insemination, neutering of pets and livestock and would place restrictions on breeding of companion and food animals and equines.
Oregon producers have organized to oppose the petition under the Oregon Farm Bureau and through various affiliated organizations. The provisions included in IP-13 are so extreme, that passage is doubtful and intervention by State courts is anticipated.
In the case of both Colorado and Oregon, animal activists appear to have been too radical in their demands. They may have achieved greater success by emulating California with successive Propositions #2 and then #12 that have improved the welfare of flocks and herds raised for intensive livestock production.
At the end of the day, animal activists have little to offer in the way of a substitute for conventional beef, pork, milk and eggs either through satisfying consumer demand or supplying nutritional value.