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How to Confront Cruelty

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I came across this 2005 book from the Society & Animals Journal titled Confronting Cruelty Moral Orthodoxy and the Challenge of the Animal Rights Movement. Readership: This book will be of interest to anyone who wishes to understand the animal rights movement in England, the United States and Australia.

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Arkansas Out of the Dark Ages with Cruelty Law

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Mike Beebe has signed into law new animal-cruelty restrictions that make aggravated cruelty to cats, dogs and horses a felony on the first offense. Arkansas becomes the 46th state to make cruelty to animals a felony, according to the Humane Society of the United States.

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SPCA Supervisor Arrested For Animal Cruelty in Texas

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Tags: animal abuse. Apparently she was running out of money so she left the puppy in a crate in her laundry room to slowly starve to death. Oh, and when they shut the electricity off, she moved into a hotel room without the dog.

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Student Researcher Says "Hooray for Animal Research"

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Another young person indoctrinated by the animal researchers. Tags: university research animal experimentation animal research animal cruelty. Drugs are not the cure for everything, although they are very profitable for whoever licenses them.

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Baby Chicks Ground Up

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Thanks to Mercy for Animals for their undercover work exposing this egg industry practice. Tags: animal cruelty eggs farm animal welfare factory farm. What a subject line, but it's true. This is the second time this year that I've heard of this group capturing headlines. I'd never heard of them before.

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Suit Against Circus Owners Goes to Trial

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Finally, a cruelty suit against Feld Entertainment, which owns Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, is coming to trial. Tags: animal cruelty circus elephants. employee, claims the defendants inhumanely and illegally mistreat their Asian elephants and have done so for decades.

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DMX is Pretty in Prison Pink

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Rap singer DMX is currently serving a jail sentence for animal cruelty, drugs and fraud. Tags: DMX animal cruelty. And things are even worse for him because his prison wardrobe is (gasp!) Looks like Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio has come up with the cure for DMX's addiction to jail.