WI budget provision exempts researchers from animal cruelty cases

[HereSince1628]

When is a budget bill not a budget bill?---No joke here--- When it is tagged full of amendments written by a red state government hell bent on purging the state of decades of burdensome law created by bleeding hearts.
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'Madison - A provision in the state budget would give more legal protection to researchers performing animal testing in the state...The amendment would exempt animal researchers in Wisconsin from any state criminal penalties for animal cruelty...Researchers would still be liable under federal law if they violate the protocol of their research institution...Under the new statute, researchers performing animal testing would be protected from criminal liability at the state level as long as their research is "bona fide." Federal law requires researchers to follow state law and any protocol of the respective research institution.'

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/124325039.html

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Let's just be frank. The Wisconsin budget bill un-does everything good that was accomplished in the

prior 5 decades.

[Myrina]

2. Prior 5? How 'bout prior 12 decades?

This mofo is basically rolling WI back to "the dawn of the 20th century".