Please do your homework. In California,
they put things on the ballot and allow people to vote on them.
http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/archives/id/13616/
Two propositions about animal rights will appear on the ballot in November, thanks to the initiative of grassroots organizations in California.
Over 700,000 citizens signed petitions for both measures
so that voters will decide whether Propositions 4 and 6 will become California law.
Proposition 4 prohibits the use of a "padded steel-jawed leg hold trap" when catching fur-bearing or non-game mammals for commercial or recreational use. It also prohibits the use of two specific poisons...
Proposition 6 makes the possession, transfer, or receipt of horses for slaughter for human consumption a felony...