Outlaw Goldfish

Seriously?

It is a mainstay of fairs and carnivals around the country: sink a ping pong ball into a fish bowl and win the goldfish swimming inside.

But if a bill in the Illinois Senate becomes law, carnivals would no longer be allowed to award live animals — such as fish, reptiles and hermit crabs – as prizes.

Illinois’ Humane Care for Animals Act already prohibits rabbits, ducklings and baby chicks as carnival prizes, but Senate Bill 2472 would expand the law’s protections to all animals — including the goldfish that winners can take home in a plastic bag.

(https://www.farmweeknow.com/policy/state/senate-bill-would-outlaw-live-animal-prizes-at-carnivals/article_a576811c-422c-11ea-b9f2-6bc5cce0ab35.html)


Our beautiful state is falling-apart at the seams due to years and years of crappy mismanagement in Springfield.

And instead of working on that, we're wasting time to protect goldfish?

(while at the same time leaving 1000's of vulnerable kiddos in the state's foster home program unmonitored and/or mis-monitored)

Makes perfect sense.   Yeesh.


Grace & Peace & Love to you all -

Matt