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The Irish Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Irish: Cumann na hÉireann um Fhóirithint ar Ainmhithe), most commonly known as and referred to as the ISPCA, is a charity operating in the Republic of Ireland which promotes animal welfare. Founded in 1949, it is the main animal protection charity in Ireland known for their charitable ...
European animal protection advocates begin to focus less on animal cruelty as a harm to property and public morals, and more on animal cruelty as a harm to the animal itself. For instance, Germany's Animal Protection Society calls for the expansion of laws so that "the animal itself be protected and not only out of regard for the public". [11 ...
It was finally repealed in 1828 by one of Peel's Acts for restating and consolidating laws, the Criminal Statutes (Ireland) Repeal Act 1828 (9 Geo. 4. c. 53). [3] British Whig writers of the 1830s alleged that ploughing by the tail was still practised in the West of Ireland at that time. Such claims were denied by Irish nationalists as propaganda.
Animal rights vary greatly among countries and territories. Such laws range from the legal recognition of non-human animal sentience to the absolute lack of any anti-cruelty laws, with no regard for animal welfare. As of November 2019, 32 countries have formally recognized non-human animal sentience.
The Act included a schedule of protected species, [1] but it was relatively weak on habitat protection, particularly in the case of habitats on privately owned land. [2] Subsequent measures to transpose the European Union's Birds Directive (originally 1979, replaced 2009) and Habitats Directive (1992) into Irish law have strengthened habitat ...
British Parliament passed the first national animal protection legislation, and the first animal protection and vegetarian organizations formed in the U.S. and U.K. [13] The American and British anti-vivisection movements grew in the late 19th century, led by Frances Power Cobbe in Britain and culminating in the Brown Dog affair, then declining ...
3.32.1 Northern Ireland. 3.32.2 Scotland. ... 5 – on the protection of animals at a public performance and in breeding; ... Animal Protection Law;
Animal welfare organisations based in the Republic of Ireland (2 C, 6 P) Irish animal rights activists (3 P) V.