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In 2008, meat industry lobby group the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) said in a news release that "[a]n official report filed by PETA itself shows that the animal rights group put to death nearly every dog, cat, and other pet it took in for adoption in 2006," with a kill rate of 97.4 percent. [169]
The Euthanasia Society of America was founded on January 16, 1938, to promote euthanasia. [1] It was co-founded by Charles Francis Potter and Ann Mitchell. [2] Alice Naumberg (mother of Ruth P. Smith) also helped found the group. [3] The group initially supported both voluntary and involuntary euthanasia. [4]
The 2022 Best Friends National Conference aimed to help save the lives of dogs and cats in overflowing animal shelters across the country. ... Durham’s euthanasia rate was 30.1%, excluding dogs ...
This list of animal rights groups consists of groups in the animal rights movement.Such animal rights groups work towards their ideals, which include the viewpoint that animals should have equivalent rights to humans, such as not being "used" in research, food, clothing and entertainment industries, and seek to end the status of animals as property. [1]
The first known animal welfare statutes in North America - regulations against “Tirranny or Crueltie” toward domestic animals - are included in the Massachusetts Body of Liberties. [5] 1828: New York passes the first state law against animal cruelty. [6] 1830s onward: Newspapers carry articles reporting and denouncing cruelty towards ...
The vivisected dog muzzled and strapped to the operating board, she argues, was a symbolic reminder of the suffragette on hunger strike restrained and force-fed in Brixton Prison, as well as women strapped into the gynaecologist's chair by their male doctors, for childbirth, for sterilization, as a cure for "hysteria", and as objects of study ...
A deaf woman was mauled to death by a pack of dogs that attacked her and her elderly husband in the backyard of their Missouri home - just one week shy of her birthday.
Ingrid Elizabeth Newkirk (née Ward; born June 11, 1949) is a British-American animal activist, author and the president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the world's largest animal rights organization. Newkirk founded PETA in March 1980 with fellow animal rights activist Alex Pacheco.