I'm glad to hear that things went well in Ontario yesterday. Sounds like everyone did a good job. But, I'm not sure things are quite as rosy as we'ed like to believe. While the commission is saying that the ban is for the food trade, how exactly would the "pet industry" be "excluded" from a ban?? In other words, if California bans turtles and frogs, how could they possibly word the regulations to only ban frogs and turtles for food.

A ban is a ban. Even if the CDFG and the commission only "meant" to ban these animals from the food trade, allowing the pet trade to have them would make any regulations unenforceable. They will either have to ban all frogs and turtles from the state or not bother banning any.

I think we better not just sit back and assume the CDFG and Commission are going to be looking out for our best interest. Any language for proposed regulations needs to be reviewed and if the possibility of the ban extending to pet and hobbist uses appears, we need to oppose it.

Still, as one of the people who found out about this issue at the Sacto Commission meeting last month, I'm glad to hear that everyone did a good job in Onterio.

Now what about the beaded issue? How did that go?

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