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The American College of Animal Welfare (ACAW) is a fully recognized specialty in the field of veterinary medicine by the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA). [1] Their goal is to advance the welfare of animals through education, certification, and Scientific investigation.
Jake Conroy is an American animal rights activist and vegan [1] who was involved with Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC), [2] [3] an international campaign to force the closure of Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS), an animal-testing company based in the UK and US, for which he designed and maintained the SHAC websites.
From 1868 until 2018 The New Jersey Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals focused on humane law enforcement and investigations of animal cruelty throughout New Jersey. Law Enforcement operations ceased on July 31, 2018. The agency was one of just a few law enforcement agencies in the state that have statewide authority.
The Jersey Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (also referred to as the JSPCA, Jersey SPCA), founded 1868; 157 years ago (), is a nonprofit organization based in Jersey, with the aims of preventing cruelty, promoting knowledge, and providing for aged, sick, lost and unwanted animals within Jersey.
As a result of the report, the Farm Animal Welfare Advisory Committee was created to monitor the livestock production sector. In July 1979, this was replaced by the Farm Animal Welfare Council, and by the end of that year, the five freedoms had been codified into the recognisable list format. [7]
Its scope includes animal welfare science, animal cognition, ethology, behavioural ecology, evolution of behaviour, sociobiology, behavioural physiology, population biology, neurophysiology and abnormal behaviour. It was established in 1992 and is published by the Universities Federation for Animal Welfare.
Prior to the Animal Welfare Act, animal welfare law was largely reactive and action could only be taken once an animal had suffered unnecessarily. In 2002, Title X, Subtitle D, of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act amended the Animal Welfare Act of 1966 by changing the definition of animal (Pub.L. 107–171).
In 1926, the University of London Animal Welfare Society (ULAWS) was founded by Major Charles Hume. [14] As its support base amongst academic institutions grew and as more institutions and people learned of and championed the scientific approach to animal problems that ULAWS stood for, the name of the society was changed, in 1938, to the Universities Federation for Animal Welfare (UFAW).