Key Messages in the Fight to Protect Property Rights

• This measure infringes upon landowner's right to use their personal property as they see fit.
• To criminalize this form of commerce is a violation of landowner property rights and a person’s ability to do as they see fit both with the animals they own and their property.
• This ban will lead to even more restrictions on the harvesting of any privately-owned livestock – whether elk, deer or bison or domestic livestock like cattle and hogs.
• The language of the measure means that alternative livestock ranchers won’t be able to process their animals for commercial sale in restaurants and grocery stores or even for personal consumption.
• The health of the game on hunting preserves is protected by the North Dakota Board of Animal Health.
• People who want to hunt on a preserve should have the choice to do so.
• Hunting preserves support tourism and bring in out-of-state money.
• Radical animal rights groups are leveraging battles like the one shaping up in North Dakota to further their efforts to ban all hunting and animal farming.
• Those who don't agree with game preserve hunting have the choice not to utilize hunting preserves.

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