This week I sat down with Professor Delcianna J. Winders, Professor and Animal Law and Policy Institute Director at the Vermont Law School. Professor Winders is a total rock star in the exploding area of animal law. Interview.
Today’s DAA is to urge New York City Council Member, Kalman Yeger, to co-sponsor City Council Member Robert Holden's humane bill (Intro 573) to ban the inhumane, dangerous and miserable excuse for entertainment that is horse carriages ASAP. Petition Signing.
More than 100,000 people have called for Rocky the coyote's release from the River Trail Nature Center in Northbrook, Illinois, where he continues to suffer, but local officials have instead decided to simply make his cage bigger. Demand that the Cook County Board of Commissioners and Cook County Forest Preserve take immediate steps to release Rocky to The Wild Animal Sanctuary! More info:
Whales are being coerced into tiny cages and implanted with electrodes by the US Navy. These conditions are extremely stressful for the animals and have failed to produce meaningful data. Demand an end to this cruel research endeavor. Info.
Chickens on battery-farms are forced to spend their entire lives in tiny, overcrowded cages with no access to sunlight and no room to stand. Australia has promised to phase out this cruel agricultural practice by the year 2036, but that’s not soon enough. Demand a ban on battery-cages now. NOW.
The petition also requested a requirement that facilities file mortality reports with the agency every three years. While the USDA’s response to the petition will improve mortality tracking efforts, the agency didn’t agree to having facilities submit mortality reports to the agency, and instead only requires them to be kept on-site. ACTION: https://aldf.org/case/demanding-usda-strengthen-and-enforce-awa-licensees-recordkeeping-requirement-for-all-animal-deaths/
Cruelty to animals is now a federal crime under a new law signed by President Trump on Monday.
The Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act (PACT) is a bipartisan initiative that bans the intentional crushing, burning, drowning, suffocating, impalement or other serious harm to "living non-human mammals, birds, reptiles, or amphibians."
The law also bans "animal crush videos," meaning any photograph, motion picture film, video or digital recording or electronic image that depicts animal cruelty.
More: https://www.npr.org/2019/11/25/782842651/trump-signs-law-making-cruelty-to-animals-a-federal-crime
The belief that animals should be accorded some form of rights is an ancient one. In its modern form, the list of basic animal rights is becoming more concrete.
Animal rights are sometimes put up as an oppositional concept to the more widely acknowledged and legislated idea of animal welfare. Some animal rights advocates posit that animal welfare is an insufficient idea which, in simply seeking to improve the wellbeing of animals, fails to challenge the implicit premise that animals are resources for human exploitation. Improving animal welfare means people will try (and often fail) to exploit animals more humanely, whereas establishing animal rights will result in the abandonment of animal exploitation altogether, allowing animals to live on their own terms.
Few issues are as harrowing and heartbreaking as animal cruelty and neglect. An animal is abused every 60 seconds, with dogs making up around 65% of abuse cases. There are 86,400 seconds in a 24-hour period, which means roughly 1,440 animals face abuse every single day. The vast majority of these cases go unreported or underreported to law enforcement agencies or media outlets.
More: https://www.pawtracks.com/getting-started/animal-cruelty-prevention/
Animal abuse is a serious topic that occurs every day. This happens every day, everywhere. Together people could change the world. Animal abuse is a major cause all around the world that is causing millions of animals to get hurt and killed, from the smallest animal, to the largest animal known. Almost every animal is being abused by careless people, animals such as chickens, dogs and elephants.
https://www.theodysseyonline.com/animal-abuse-stop
We’ve all seen the news stories or social media posts about extreme animal cruelty. The horrible photos that depict emaciated animals, unsanitary hoarding or living conditions, or civilians breaking car windows for pets in the middle of summer are never fun to see. It’s unpleasant to watch and can make any animal lover upset enough to want to do something, but what can you do when it comes to preventing animal cruelty?
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