It's so big. When I started this, everybody was saying, “How are you even going to come close to getting anything done?” Everybody feels that it's like climbing Mount Everest. How do you get anywhere? Unless we attack it and unless we understand that there are certain provinces, areas and things that we need to respect: where the country came from and that there is agriculture and an economy there.... We have to balance out the economy with the basic stuff that's not being taken care of. There has to be an understanding. We can't say that everybody has to stop eating meat. That's not going to fly. Then everything gets stopped. That's why the last bill didn't work: because everybody in agriculture and on the economy side were like, “Hey, no way.” That was not going to fly for their constituents.
We need to balance it out and make everybody understand that, no, we're not going to take away their economy, but we also need to make sure that the animals are treated a little more humanely. Also, we need to take care of the other side of it: when you buy a puppy, when you take care of a puppy, and when you're hurting a puppy, preventing you from getting an animal and doing all these laws.... It needs to be tackled in areas. That's where these amazing lawyers who know their stuff inside out, with every bill and every law, can now come together, and all these groups can come together. We can make a difference and get this moving forward.
I think we're 25 years behind where we're supposed to be. You have to tackle it. It has to get done.