Welcome to Rising Anxieties.

I am Mary Ann Sullivan, and I just thought you might need stuff to worry about, so I thought I'd bring you a few things.

And also, of course, what I really like to cover is things the animal abuse industries are worrying about.

It's nice to know they're worried.

Sometimes they're worried about us.

This week is one of those times.

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All right, let's see where we are. Our first article

is for Meeting Place, and it's by one of our favorite commentators, Hannah Thompson

Weeman, who is the president of the Animal Agriculture Alliance. And eyes on Oregon.

She's, she, her anxieties are actually rising. Eyes on Oregon, measure

criminalizing animal agriculture could make November ballot. You may think that she is exaggerating.

She is not. It's really true. We actually had David Michelson from the Oregon Ballot Initiative on the Animal Law podcast episode 76,

which was a while ago, but they've tried this a couple of times.

They're collecting the signatures once again.

He said at the time that this was not going to be a one-act deal, like it was going to take

time.

And so it's this ballot initiative.

And it's called, they call it, the new name for it is people for the elimination of animal

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