Reddit Animals

APRIL 11, 2023

This put Coffee in an impossible position - he needed to rehome the pythons because they were illegal in Florida, but the FWC was threatening to face him with additional criminal charges if he did so. The FWC then proceeded to kill the total 34 pythons using a bolt gun.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 20, 2010

The United States Supreme Court has ruled that the First Amendment protects depictions of animal cruelty. This does not mean that it protects animal cruelty, which is (and ought to be) illegal in every state.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 9, 2009

The law speaks specifically and narrowly to the distribution for profit of videos that show illegal acts of cruelty actually being performed on live animals (my italics). Only a very narrow range of activities come under the sweep of this law, and all of them are illegal.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 6, 2009

The statute defines a depiction of animal cruelty as “any visual or auditory depiction, including any photograph, motion-picture film, video recording, electronic image, or sound recording of conduct in which a living animal is intentionally maimed, mutilated, tortured, wounded, or killed, if such conduct is illegal.”

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 11, 2010

To the Editor: Re “ Disgusting but Not Illegal ” (editorial, Aug. 2): We disagree with your contention that the First Amendment protects animal “crush” videos. Stevens , the Supreme Court last year overturned a 1999 law banning depictions of animal cruelty on the grounds of overbreadth. In United States v.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 23, 2008

To the Editor: Re “ In Europe, the Catch of the Day Is Often Illegal ” (“Empty Seas” series, front page, Jan. 15): The appalling commercial demand for seafood will soon exhaust the oceans. Only a vigorous, internationally enforced, decades-long general moratorium on commercial fishing can bring us back from this brink.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 21, 2010

Inhumane confinement, illegal anticompetitive practices and factory farming hurt animals, the environment, the consumer, the public health and the farmer. Reversing the agricultural trends of the last half century is a policy area where almost everyone’s interests are aligned.

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