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  2. Humane Slaughter Act - Wikipedia

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    The Humane Slaughter Act, or the Humane Methods of Livestock Slaughter Act (P.L. 85-765; 7 U.S.C. 1901 et seq.), is a United States federal law designed to decrease suffering of livestock during slaughter. It was approved on August 27, 1958. [1]

  3. Animal welfare in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Following the decline of the anti-vivisection movement in the early-twentieth century, animal welfare and rights movements did not re-emerge until the 1950s. In 1955, the Society for Animal Protective Legislation (SAPL) was founded to lobby for humane slaughter legislation, and the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act (HMSA) was passed in 1958. [13]

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

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    George Angell founds the American Humane Education Society. [28] 1907: Every state in the union has anti-cruelty statutes. [7] 1910: Massachusetts passes a law to allow the Massachusetts SPCA to inspect slaughterhouses. [7] 1922: By this time, twenty states have passed laws requiring humane education in schools. [28] 1923

  5. Federal records show Aberdeen beef plant has recent history ...

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    On Nov. 17, 2022, Jan. 10 and Jan. 13, DemKota employees were found to be shackling cattle prior to stunning, which is a violation of the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act.

  6. Legal aspects of ritual slaughter - Wikipedia

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    The United States is one of the countries that has legislation for protection of shechita (Jewish) and dhabihah (Muslim) ritual slaughter. The Humane Slaughter Act defines ritual slaughter as one of two humane methods of slaughter. [141] Since 1958 the United States has prohibited the shackling and hoisting of cattle without stunning them first.

  7. Timeline of animal welfare and rights - Wikipedia

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    The Society for Animal Protective Legislation (SAPL), the first organization to lobby for humane slaughter legislation in the US, was founded. [17] 1958 The American Humane Slaughter Act was passed. [17] 1960 Indian parliament passed its first national animal welfare legislation, Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act. [42] 1964

  8. Animal welfare - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, a federal law called the Humane Slaughter Act was designed to decrease suffering of livestock during slaughter. [82] The Georgia Animal Protection Act of 1986 was a state law enacted in response to the inhumane treatment of companion animals by a pet store chain in Atlanta. [83]

  9. List of animal rights advocates - Wikipedia

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    Law professor, author of Rattling the Case: Toward Legal Rights for Animals (2000) [172] Ursula Wolf: 1951 Germany Philosopher, author of Das Tier in der Moral (1990) [173] Philip Wollen: 1950 India Australian philanthropist, environmentalist and animal rights activist Gretchen Wyler: 1932–2007 United States