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Jeff Schofield
at Mon Jan 25 21:53:13 2010 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Jeff Schofield ]
I live close to Nashville. Not a huge city. Almost every day there are ads for pythons and/or boas looking for new homes in the Nashville craigslist. In big cities there must be more. I think there's already lots of the critters here. Do we really need to import more??
I'd like to know at least a couple of things before deciding whether to support or oppose this bill:
1. how much money does interstate trade in large pythons and boas really contribute to the economy? I mean dollars and cents here, not wild hand-waving.
2. if interstate trade in large pythons and boas was stopped, how much would that really affect the average herp owner? Sure, a few big breeders would be inconvenienced. But how hard would it really be for most people to obtain large snakes if they wanted them? Again, please, facts and figures -- not hand-waving.
If folks want to oppose this bill, IMHO the way to do it is with hard facts -- not hysteria. Find the facts and figures, and people might listen to you. Yell about the sky falling, and you will be ignored.
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I dont think you can comprehend the scope.
1--All Boids will become suspect legal or not.
2--There are hundreds of commercial breeders who PAY TAXES. You are limiting their commerce intentionally. MILLIONS of $$ in taxes will be lost. Big guys will have to dial back from commercial to recreational(lost jobs), businesses will close.
3--Interstate commerce will go away, you can only get what legal breeders IN YOUR STATE have. Kinda like Indigos are now. New stuff, multimorphs will simply be impossible to get. Purity will become a problem, finding another Peruvian Rainbow will be impossible.You will end up with more and more mutts...No new blood, no outcrossing, 50 completely different and limited gene pools.
4--Once passed PETA will then turn its efforts to another unworthy "problem" with their own agenda.
5--Law enforcemet(especially environmetal)already cut to the bone with budget cuts will be responsible for potentially millions of $$ of illegal activity. Who is going to pay for the increase in enforcement?? EVERYBODY. If it doesnt happen what happens to the environmental allocation of time to worthy projects like endangered species??
This is happening NOT because of any science, its happening so the govt can more closely monitor their take in the herp business period. If you cant see it go take a course on public policy.
I have no interest in Boids
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RE: Fish & Wildlife to add pythons to Lacey - Jeff Schofield, Mon Jan 25 21:53:13 2010