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SAN FRANCISCO FIRST U.S. CITY TO CONSIDER BAN ON ANIMALS
July 12 2010
San Francisco, CA – For centuries mankind has being doing its best to control nature. While some of those efforts have ended in failure or even tragedy for the target species, all-in-all our domestication of the natural world has been a major 
success. Whether it is cows and pigs or corn and rice, man has been able to enforce his will on nature and bend it towards our own uses. In the process, those species have flourished and mankind has spread to all corners of the globe.
Of course not everyone agrees that such domestication is right or ethical. Groups such as PETA have long been advocates of animal freedom and have gone to extremes to enforce their beliefs on others. While such efforts have undoubtedly done good things, such as exposing brutal living conditions for farm animals, much of their more radical ideas have gone unnoticed or out and out dismissed. However San Francisco, one of the true homes of progressive ideas, has taken up that mantle with a new proposal that would ban all animals, save humans and fish, from entering the city meaning that man and beast will never suffer the kind of confrontations that has left many a small animal on the losing side of the battle.
“People buy small animals all the time as an impulse buy, don't know what they're getting into, and the animals end up at the shelter and often are euthanized. That's what we'd like to stop. By first introducing a ban on pets we will be able to eventually move all other species out of the area and prevent them from entering again,” said Sally Stephens, Chairwoman of San Francisco's Commission of Animal Control and Welfare. “The removal of pets will allow us to narrow down which animals will need to be moved and will help reduce the populations of certain animals that are simply released into the wild after an owner can no longer care for them or come about as a result of unplanned pregnancies.”
Fish, a staple food across the Bay City, will not be a part of the legislation largely because they are tasty.
“This is an idea that many cities have considered but few have ever gotten this close 
to imposing. It’s really a radical idea that of course won’t sit well with certain members of the population but for others, particularly the aging population of the city, it’s a welcome change,” said Scrape TV American analyst Dave Davidson. “Younger people simply don’t realize the kinds of headaches that yapping dogs, prowling cats, and bombarded windshields provide for older people. For young people these things are a nuisance but for the older population they are a real serious health and sanity issue and they will be much relieved if this change goes through. Obviously it’s going to means higher taxes because the efforts will have to be tremendous but it will be worth it for many people in the end.”
It’s not clear if ground dwelling animals will also be subject to the new rules.
“The other issue of course will be insects which will flourish in the absence of other 
animals, particularly birds but I guess they have thought that through. The birds of course will be a major issue but I guess if they just take to shooting them down everything will be okay,” continued Davidson. “I wouldn’t be surprised if this type of thing starts to take off across the country. I mean you look at a city like Detroit which has more feral dogs than people and you realize the extent of the problem. I mean if we don’t start to actively deal with this situation then the situation will start to deal with us. There’s a reason we have been so successful and it hasn’t been because we let the animals do what they wanted.”
Reports of an increased police presence around the famous Pier 39, the home for hundreds of Sea Lions for years, indicates that the proposal may in fact pass.
Mike Michaels, American Correspondent
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