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Bergh, unkhown. During his stay in Europe, Bergh witnessed various cruelties committed upon animals, which affected him greatly. [3] In England Bergh met Lord Harrowby, president of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, who impressed upon Bergh the importance of his mission, leading Bergh to dedicate the rest of his life to the cause of ending animal cruelty.
On February 8, 1866, Bergh pleaded on behalf of animals at a meeting at Clinton Hall in New York City. Some of the issues he discussed were cockfighting and the horrors of slaughterhouses. [5] After getting signatures for his "Declaration of the Rights of Animals," Bergh was given an official charter to incorporate the ASPCA on April 10, 1866. [6]
An engraved portrait of American philanthropist Henry Bergh from the 1850s. - Kean Collection/Getty Images. Bergh was a more militant crusader of animal welfare, but his and his fellow advocates ...
In 1866 Henry Bergh had founded the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, partly in response to the creation in Great Britain of the RSPCA some years earlier. In 1874 he and other officers of the society were approached by a church worker named Etta Angell Wheeler regarding the mistreatment of a child called Mary Ellen ...
The first animal protection group in the United States, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), was founded by Henry Bergh in April 1866. Bergh had been appointed by President Abraham Lincoln to a diplomatic post in Russia, and had been disturbed by the mistreatment of animals he witnessed there.
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Henry Spira founds Animal Rights International after attending a course on animal liberation given by Peter Singer. [31] 1975: Peter Singer publishes Animal Liberation, whose depictions of the conditions of animals on farms and in laboratories and utilitarian arguments for animal liberation are to have a major influence on the animal movement ...
Ultimately, Bergh revealed that the business lost some of its best leaders because he was too slow in acting on his gut instinct by getting rid of employees who needed to go and promoting other ...