{"id":665363,"date":"2026-05-26T04:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T04:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/665363\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T04:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T04:24:07","slug":"oregon-petition-to-criminalize-hunting-fishing-reaches-signature-threshold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/665363\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon petition to criminalize hunting, fishing reaches signature threshold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SALEM, Ore. (KATU) \u2014 Supporters of an effort to criminalize the killing of animals for food in Oregon are one step closer in getting a measure on the November ballot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/egov.sos.state.or.us\/elec\/web_irr_search.record_detail?p_reference=20260028..LSCYYY.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Initiative Petition 28<\/a> would make it illegal to injure or kill animals and would effectively ban hunting, fishing and the breeding of animals.<\/p>\n<p>PREVIOUS COVERAGE FOR MORE DETAILS: <a href=\"https:\/\/katu.com\/news\/local\/people-for-the-elimination-of-animal-cruelty-exemption-controversial-petition-aims-criminalize-ban-hunting-fishing-pest-control-oregon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Controversial petition aims to ban hunting, fishing and pest control in Oregon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Supporters have been collecting signatures for this since 2024 and this past week, they reached the number necessary to make it onto the November ballot.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>JOIN THE CONVERSATION (27)<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s not official yet. The Secretary of State\u2019s Office still needs to verify the signatures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALEM, Ore. (KATU) \u2014 Supporters of an effort to criminalize the killing of animals for food in Oregon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-665363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}