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Here’s a new post from The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com

The ballot initiative process, which allows citizens to place proposals for new laws before the voters, had been left for dead by our movement until The Humane Society of the United States and the Fund for Animals revived its use in the early 1990s. In circumstances where animal-use industries and their allies in state legislatures summarily dismissed or fought off popular reforms in state capitols, or in some cases rejected even the idea of dialogue, the use of the initiative process became a course of last resort, and we’ve used it to great effect for our cause. Among other things, it’s been the pathway for us to ban the use of steel-jawed leghold traps and other body-gripping traps in a half dozen states, bear baiting and hounding in four states, cockfighting in three states, and inhumane factory farming practices in three states, most recently by passing Proposition 2 in California in November 2008.

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Wayne Pacelle: Ohio Landmark: Behind the Animal Welfare Agreement