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The first World Day for Laboratory Animals is held on April 24. The first World Day for Farmed Animals is held on October 2, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi. 1984: Tom Regan publishes The Case for Animal Rights, a highly influential philosophical argument that animals have rights (as opposed to Peter Singer's utilitarian case for animal ...
Intensive animal farming began when Celia Steele raised her first flock of chickens for meat. [15] 1933 Nazi Germany introduced the law Reichstierschutzgesetz (Reich Animal Protection Act). [citation needed] 1944 Donald Watson coined the word "vegan" and founded The Vegan Society in Britain. [38] 1950
Animal euthanasia (euthanasia from Greek: εὐθανασία; "good death") is the act of killing an animal humanely, most commonly with injectable drugs. Reasons for euthanasia include incurable (and especially painful) conditions or diseases, [ 1 ] lack of resources to continue supporting the animal, or laboratory test procedures.
[23] The word "euthanasia" was first used in a medical context by Francis Bacon in the 17th century to refer to an easy, painless, happy death, during which it was a "physician's responsibility to alleviate the 'physical sufferings' of the body." Bacon referred to an "outward euthanasia"—the term "outward" he used to distinguish from a ...
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Despite spending $50 million to search for alternatives to animal euthanasia, California is killing more dogs and cats now than when the money was first allotted. Gavin Newsom spent $50 million to ...
Two younger puppies at the Wake County Animal Center in Raleigh, N.C. on Wednesday, June 22, 2022. As shelters nationwide work to keep euthanasia rates down, attendees of the 2022 Best Friends ...
A humane society is a group that aims to stop cruelty to animals.In many countries, the term is used mostly for societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals (SPCA). In the United Kingdom, and historically in the United States, such societies provide waterway rescue, prevention and recovery services, or may give awards for saving human life (e.g., Glasgow Humane Society and Massachusetts ...