9 Articles match "Laws","Protecting Animals"

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• There Oughta Be A Law Contest
  
  The Humane Society Legislative Fund is having a contest where you can submit your idea for a new law protecting animals. The winner will get a trip to Washington DC to lobby for it with HSLF staff.
  Critter News - Monday, August 24, 2009
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• Puerto Rico Plans Huge Primate Breeding Facility to Supply Researchers
  
  I'm behind on my email and only just read this action alert from the Animal Legal Defense Fund. Less than one year ago, Puerto Rico enacted a landmark animal protection law, based in part on a set of model laws drafted by the Animal Legal Defense Fund. From the ALDF action alert page.
  Critter News - Sunday, July 12, 2009
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• Appeal Denied for Six Activists Convicted Under AEPA
  
  Six members of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty were convicted at a 2006 trial in New Jersey of conspiracy to violate the 1992 Animal Enterprise Protection Act. The law, since revised, aimed to protect animal research laboratories from illegal, sometimes violent protests. From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
  Critter News - Saturday, October 17, 2009
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• Activists Continue to Target UC Animal Researchers
  
  California recently passed a law protecting animal researchers from animal activists. This law changes NOTHING. These animals are denied movement and cut open for his insane, unscientific studies. In the short term at least, it's not working. As the vivisectors revel in their false safety, know this.
  Critter News - Monday, October 6, 2008
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• On Trial: Animal Torture Videos vs. Free Speech
  
  At issue in the case is the constitutionality of a decade old law passed by Congress and signed by President Clinton in 1999. That law, U.S. The law also made it a crime to sell videos in which animals were tortured to death by being burned alive, as well as videos of illegal dog fights. Today, the U.S. Stevens.
  Animal Ethics - Tuesday, October 6, 2009
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• From Yesterday's New York Times
  
  To the Editor: Re “ A Disgraceful Farm Bill ” (editorial, May 16): While the farm bill recently approved by Congress deals with enormous agricultural policy issues, it also includes three important provisions to protect animal welfare. These new penalties would give the law some much needed teeth.
  Animal Ethics - Friday, May 23, 2008
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• The True Costs of the Rhetoric of Terror Continue to Mount – Part 1
  
  Bush signed the “ Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act ” into law this past Monday (November 27, 2006). The law protects animal enterprises from courses of conduct designed to disrupt their normal profitable functioning. The new law is chilling both in its scope and in its narrowness. On November 4, 2005, Rep.
  Animal Ethics - Saturday, December 2, 2006
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• From Today's New York Times
  
  To the Editor: “ What’s Next in the Law? The Unalienable Rights of Chimps ,” by Adam Cohen (Editorial Observer, July 14): The Spanish Parliament’s decision to grant rights to apes is indeed groundbreaking, and will foster philosophical discussion about animal protection for some time.
  Animal Ethics - Tuesday, July 22, 2008
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• The Animal Legal Defense Fund Public Registries
  
  I recently got an email from the Animal Legal Defense Fund. They are pioneering legislation in California to make public animal abuse registries. The Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) today announced an effort aimed at creating public registries in each state of anyone convicted of felony animal abuse. COTATI, CALIF.
  4 The Love Of Animals - Thursday, February 25, 2010
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