«We believe that... Connecticut was already capable of fairly adjudicating
animal cruelty and other
animal issues without, in a larger
sense, potentially jeopardizing the current legal status of
animals and without, on the smaller level, involving outside organizations and interests to influence the adjudication of individual cases,» Goffe said.
The
sense that I have gotten from my local health officials is that they are largely unconcerned about the
animals that are being kept clean and being sold with appropriate caging and supplies; they want to stop the more impulsive sales that will engender real health
issues or lead to abused and mistreated pets.
It would be cool to see a wide collection of maps covering many different
issues, not just climate and food production, but, for instance, poverty and wealth, arms production and war, clothing production and leisure time, education levels, consumption, production, health, population growth and decline, movement of immigrants, human rights,
animal populations, housing ownership, housing starts, anything basically which can be measured in a visual map... not just for the US but as global maps, collected on pages where you could drag them around to sit on top of each other and try and make
sense of the various impacts...