residence passes bill aiming to ban americans from consuming cats and canine

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American politics may be a dog-devour-dog world, however the condo has discovered a way to take part in some bipartisanship: making an attempt to ban americans from ingesting canines — and cats.

The house passed a invoice on Wednesday geared toward outlawing the slaughter of cats and dogs for human consumption.

Florida Reps. Vern Buchanan, a Republican, and Alcee Hastings, a Democrat, have been working considering that 2017 on the "Dog and Cat Meat exchange Prohibition Act of 2018," which seeks to first-rate americans up to $5,000 for killing, shipping, promoting or donating a cat or dog with the meant goal of human consumption.

The invoice contains an exception for Indian tribes "accomplishing any recreation described ... for the aim of a non secular ceremony."

The residence additionally passed a decision Wednesday "urging all international locations to outlaw the dog and cat meat change," in accordance with an announcement from Hastings.

"i am proud to have championed this effort, which sends a powerful signal to the world that the welfare of animals have to be taken seriously," he talked about.

Buchanan cited that most americans don't seem to be serving their pets for dinner, but "the practice is still criminal in forty four states and will be outlawed completely given how cherished these animals are for many americans."

He urged the Senate to trust the act earlier than Congress adjourns in the fall.