condominium of Representatives votes to ban ingesting of canines and cats

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. house of Representatives on Wednesday ultimately found a precept its participants could unite behind: americans should no longer consume canine and cats.

In a non-controversial voice vote, it passed the bill to ban people from knowingly slaughtering a dog or cat for human consumption.The optimum satisfactory for violations would be $5,000.

while individuals within the u.s. do not commonly consume cats and canine, backers of the bill mentioned reviews of their consumption in Hawaii and Pennsylvania. Advocates of the bill mentioned it's technically prison to eat dogs and cats in 44 states.

They argued passage of a nationwide ban is required to discourage the apply in different nations where cat and dog consuming is more widespread, reminiscent of China, South Korea, Vietnam and Thailand.

"because the condominium of Representatives also calls for the end of the dog and cat meat alternate globally, it is crucial that we hang ourselves to the identical requisites we need to see in others," spoke of an announcement from Florida Democratic Rep. Alcee Hastings, who entreated the U.S. Senate to "soak up this crucial invoice quickly."  

All Ohio's Democratic U.S. residence of Representatives participants cosponsored the invoice, as did Republicans Jim Renacci of Wadsworth, Dave Joyce of Bainbridge Township, invoice Johnson of Marietta, Steve Stivers of the Columbus enviornment and Steve Chabot of the Cincinnati area.