05/28/2026
Oregon is staring down a ballot initiative being sold with friendly language—but the real-world impacts don’t stay on paper.
IP28 would criminalize intentional harm to an “animal,” and in practice that ripples through everyday Oregon life:
- cattle ranching + local meat
- farmers markets and vendors
- restaurants that source locally
- fishing + commercial fishing
- pest control and public health
- science-based wildlife management
That’s why we’re producing a film with Big Peak Studios: to show the people, industries, and communities this would hit—clearly, credibly, and without the spin.
🎥 Help fund the film: howlforwildlife.org/ip28film
If you represent a brand/org and want to discuss bigger support, we have a sponsor inquiry section on the same page.
This isn’t left vs. right. It’s whether Oregon is governed by workable rules and science—or by ballot-box slogans with real consequences.
Oregon Initiative Petition 28, which its proponents call the PEACE Act, would criminalize any intentional harm to an animal in the state of Oregon. In practice, that means hunting, fishing, ranching, and all meat production and processing become criminal acts. It means breeding dairy cows for milk i...
