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  2. Elephants Not Allowed to Petition for Release in the U ... - AOL

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    Outrage erupted among animal welfare activists after Colorado courts ruled that five captive elephants could not petition for release. An animal rights group presented the case in Colorado ...

  3. Elephants cannot sue to get out of the zoo, Colorado's top ...

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    Five elderly African elephants at a Colorado zoo will stay there, after the state's highest court said the animals have no legal right to demand their release because they are not human. Tuesday's ...

  4. Elephants are not human, Colorado high court rules for zoo in ...

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    The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled five elephants at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo do not have human rights. Here, an elephant walks within the Kimana Sanctuary in Kenya, February 8, 2021.

  5. Animal rights by country or territory - Wikipedia

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    Cow is the national animal of Nepal and cow slaughter is a punishable offense as per the prevailing law. In 2014, the Jain pilgrimage destination of Palitana City in Indian state of Gujarat became the first city in the world to be legally vegetarian. It has banned buying and selling meat, fish, and eggs, as well as related jobs, such as fishing ...

  6. Animal welfare in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The controversial practice of circus animal acts is legal in the US. [62] In 2015 Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus announced it will phase out its use of elephants by 2018, [63] but ended up shutting down in 2017. In May 2022, the circus announced it would resume touring in 2023 without the use of animals.

  7. Timeline of animal welfare and rights in the United States

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    By World War I, the American anti-vivisection movement has come to a standstill. [7] Intensive animal farming begins in the 1920s [ 8 ] and accelerates with technological advances in the 1940s, [ 7 ] allowing American meat consumption to grow from 9.8 billion pounds in 1909 to approximately 32 billion pounds in 1970. [ 9 ]

  8. Colorado zoo elephants have no right to seek freedom because ...

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    DENVER — Five elephants at a Colorado zoo do not have the legal right to pursue their own freedom from a Colorado zoo, the state’s highest court ruled Tuesday. The ruling from the Colorado ...

  9. Opinion: Why shouldn't elephants have rights? They're ... - AOL

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    There's a petition to release elephants from the Fresno Chaffee Zoo, and Ojai recently became the first U.S. city to recognize legal rights for nonhuman animals. California can lead on this issue.