With Proposed Glue Trap Ban, San Francisco Sides With the Pests
The “abundance” discourse, sparked by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s book of the same name, has directed a lot of attention to liberal America’s failure to build.
Blue cities and blue states can’t deliver projects on time and on budget, which is dragging down economic growth and sending people fleeing to red states that can.
As much truth as there is to that complaint, it ignores the other reason people hate progressive governance: the complete inability of politicians and bureaucrats to keep their noses out of individuals’ private business.
Earlier this week, the San Francisco Chronicle reported on an in-the-works proposal from the city’s Commission of Animal Control and Welfare to ban the sale, and potentially even the use, of glue traps.
Per the Chronicle‘s reporting, the commission—an advisory body that makes policy recommendations to the San Francisco government—is considering such a ban because of the allegedly cruel nature of glue traps.
Animals left in the traps can end up dying a slow death and will often hurt themselves trying to escape. Wildlife can be unintentionally caught in the traps. The live animals caught in glue traps can also leave behind urine and feces, which can pose a health
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