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She won the 2015 Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize for The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named, and her collection Ordinary Beast was a finalist for the 2018 PEN Open Book Award. [4] Her poem "Pages 22–29, an excerpt from The Ferguson Report: An Erasure" (Poetry London) won a Forward Prize for Poetry in October 2021. [5]
In 1980 the English-born British/American animal rights activist Ingrid Newkirk co-founded People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Also in 1980 was the first Action for Life conference for animal rights, which was attended by a number of pioneers in the animal rights movement, including Ingrid Newkirk.
Byas’ poetry collection, “I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times” (Soft Skull, $16.95) — winner of the 2023 Maya Angelou Book Award — borrowed some scaffolding from the 1978 musical “The ...
The first known animal welfare laws in North America were regulations against "Tirranny or Crueltie" toward domestic animals included in the 1641 Massachusetts Body of Liberties. [3] Starting in the late 1820s, a number of states passed anti-cruelty statutes.
In parallel to the debate about moral rights, North American law schools now often teach animal law, [7] and several legal scholars, such as Steven M. Wise and Gary L. Francione, support extending basic legal rights and personhood to nonhuman animals. The animals most often considered in arguments for personhood are hominids.
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 ...
Cruelty to animals, ... The primary federal law relating to animal care and conditions in the US is the Animal Welfare Act of 1966, amended in 1970, 1976, 1985, 1990 ...
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