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In Japan, the 1973 Welfare and Management of Animals Act (amended in 1999 and 2005) [163] stipulates that "no person shall kill, injure, or inflict cruelty to animals without a due course", and in particular, criminalizes cruelty to all mammals, birds, and reptiles possessed by persons; as well as cattle, horses, goats, sheep, pigs, dogs, cats ...
Animal sacrifices are surging in Queens, with chickens, pigs and even rats being tortured and set loose and even slaughtered as part of religious rituals. ... aggravated cruelty to animals ...
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 ...
Animal rights vary greatly among countries and territories. Such laws range from the legal recognition of non-human animal sentience to the absolute lack of any anti-cruelty laws, with no regard for animal welfare. As of November 2019, 32 countries have formally recognized non-human animal sentience.
Animal rights activists stopped short of celebrating the court's ruling. "This ruling does nothing to end the extreme cruelty inherent in today’s factory-farming and slaughter industry," said ...
Britain passed its first Cruelty to Animal Act after lobbying from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, expanding existing legislation to protect bulls, dogs, bears, and sheep, and prohibit bear-baiting and cock-fighting. [citation needed] 1847 The term "vegetarian" was coined and the Vegetarian Society was founded in Britain ...
The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a challenge to a California animal cruelty law that affects the pork industry, ruling that the case was properly dismissed by lower courts. Pork producers ...
Trials of animals were generally similar to trials of humans: the animals had to be arrested and tried by secular or religious courts. The animal species involved were almost invariably either domesticated ones (most often pigs, bulls, horses, donkeys, mules and cows, for secular courts) or pests such as rats and weevils for ecclesiastical courts.