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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 ...
Opposition to animal acts in circuses, anti-trophy hunting, anti-animal testing 1985 English [29] [30] "Cruelty to Animals" Frenzal Rhomb: Forever Malcolm Young: Cruelty to animals 2006 English "Death Camps" Cro-Mags: Best Wishes: Vegetarianism 1989 English [25] "Don't Kill The Animals" Nina Hagen and Lene Lovich: 1986 English "Don't Kill the ...
The Rainbow Bridge is a meadow where animals wait for their humans to join them, and the bridge that takes them all to Heaven, together. The Rainbow Bridge is the theme of several works written first in 1959, then in the 1980s and 1990s, that speak of an other-worldly place where pets go upon death, eventually to be reunited with their owners.
The Lives of Animals (1999) is a metafictional novella about animal rights by the South African novelist J. M. Coetzee, recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. [1] The work is introduced by Amy Gutmann and followed by a collection of responses by Marjorie Garber , Peter Singer , Wendy Doniger and Barbara Smuts . [ 2 ]
Britain passed its first Cruelty to Animal Act after lobbying from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, expanding existing legislation to protect bulls, dogs, bears, and sheep, and prohibit bear-baiting and cock-fighting. [citation needed] 1847 The term "vegetarian" was coined and the Vegetarian Society was founded in Britain ...
In the poem “Painted Tongue,” Byas writes: “We twist and turn in the mirror,/ my mother and I becoming each other,/ her bruises and scars passed down,/ family heirlooms that will take/ me ...
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to preventing animal cruelty. Based in New York City since its inception in 1866, [4] the organization's mission is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the United States." [1]
He writes that there were nevertheless signs of tender feelings for animals in the poetry of Virgil (70–19 BCE), Lucretius (99–55 BCE), and Ovid (43 BCE–17 CE). The statesman Seneca (4 BCE–65 CE) was a vegetarian and said that he found the practice of vegetarianism not only moral but also delightful, [ 15 ] as were the philosophers ...