Let's wish everybody working on protecting farm animal welfare, the environment and rural communities in California good luck with Proposition 2. Hopefully it will be the start of factory farming reforms across North America and we can finally catch up to the standards for farm animals in much of Europe.

Another ballot question relating to animal cruelty is Question 2 in Maryland that covers slot machines. It's mainly horse racing industries that are supporting it, as their industry in the state is suffering and they need slots to prop up their "sport."  I'm not too fond of gambling, but the main reason I'm against the measure is my opposition to the cruelty inherent in horse racing.  The horses experience high rates of injury and when they can't compete any more they're often shipped thousands of miles to Texas or Illinois, the location of the only 3 horse slaughterhouses in the country. Or sometimes they're sent to Canada or Mexico slaughterhouses.  

This initiative was basically put forth by people who want to drive in the carpool lanes all the time.  It failed in the legislator so they brought it to us.

The problem with it is that it would clog up the carpool lanes most of the time, preventing busses from getting through.  Really, that's the best use of those lanes, for buses.  They allow them to get to their destinations on time.

This is one of those initiatives that plays to people's lazy, greedy sides.  Seriously, if you want to drive in those lanes, just a get a passenger.  You only need 2 people in a car for it.

These initiatives should not be conflated as they were in this blog ("Like Proposition 7," "as with Prop. 7").  Prop 7 is a bad initiative that's opposed by all the enviro good guys, while Prop H in SF is supported by them.  The San Francisco Chronicle, Gavin Newsom, and Diane Feinstein are all shills for corporate SF and Pacific Gas & Electric, so of course they oppose Prop H.