Critter News
SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
The Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act (H.R. 6598) is a bill that criminalizes the sale and transportation of horses for slaughter. Tags: horse animal cruelty legislation Slaughterhouse us. It amazes me that legislative business is still being conducted in DC these days, what with the US economic sky falling. Lovely quote.
Critter News
FEBRUARY 14, 2009
Georgia's new dog fighting law makes it a felony to train, transport, sell or own a fighting dog, or to advertise, promote or bet on fights. Tags: animal cruelty georgia blood sport legislation dog fighting us. A first conviction means one to five years in prison, a fine of at least $5,000, or both.
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Critter News
AUGUST 6, 2009
The film’s protagonist, Ric O’Barry, who trained the animals that played TV’s Flipper before he had a change of heart, indicts businesses like Sea World as being either overtly or tacitly complicit in the cruelty. The rest are killed with spears, knives and clubs in an orgy of cruelty. The cries of the dolphins are pathetic.
Critter News
MARCH 19, 2009
Our Pork Quality Assurance Plus and Transport Quality Assurance Programs are designed to demonstrate the care we are giving to our animals everyday on our farms," Cunningham said. Tags: animal cruelty pigs pork farm animal welfare factory farm animal welfare.
Critter News
AUGUST 17, 2008
The court upheld regulations permitting pig and calf confinement, the transport of ill and injured cattle, and force molting of birds. Many states exempt routine practices from their cruelty code, and the precedent-setting ruling will be used in the nationwide campaign against controversial practices.
Animal Ethics
JANUARY 31, 2007
Each one of these animals suffered extreme cruel and inhumane conditions in the transportation and slaughter process. Surely a nation and a national press that can expend so much attention on the life and death of one racehorse should be able to muster the compassion to pass legislation that would end this cruelty. 30, 2007
Animal Ethics
MARCH 10, 2007
The horse slaughter industry in the United States has nothing to do with feeding hungry people and everything to do with animal cruelty. The transport and subsequent slaughter of these animals is brutal. The facts are these: ¶Most horses that end up slaughtered are bought by buyers acting on behalf of slaughterhouses.
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