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In 2009, Bolivia became the first country to ban all animal use in circuses. [67] 2009 After a similar 1991 ban in the Canary Islands, the Catalan Parliament adopted a ban on bullfighting in Catalonia in December 2009, effective January 2012. However, it was overturned by the Spanish Constitutional Court in October 2016.
[9] [15] [20] A number of international agreements are adopted, culminating in measures by the European Union (EU) to recognize animals as sentient beings whose basic needs should be provided for; ban battery cages, veal crates, and gestation crates; and to regulate and monitor animal agriculture and experimentation in various other ways. [20]
Some zoos, particularly petting zoos, do the opposite and actively encourage people to get involved with the feeding of the animals. [17] This, however, is strictly monitored and usually involves set food available from the zookeepers or vending machines , as well as a careful choice of which animals to feed, and the provision of hand-washing ...
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[215] [216] When pressed on the ban, Laura Weyman-Jones (the Australian division's marketing manager) said that it was a "conversation starter", and not an actual request or threat. [ 217 ] [ 218 ] The company did not reverse its position that meat consumption was a form of toxic masculinity , harmful to the environment, increased male ...
The zoo counters that popular opinions about what’s considered best for elephants in general or in the wild are not the best for these elephants, and that the requirement of habeas corpus that ...
Five elephants in a Colorado zoo could someday sue for their freedom, if the state’s Supreme Court sides with an animal rights group and declares them “persons” under the law. But first, the ...
Even though around 90% of US adults regularly consume meat, [85] almost half of them appear to support a ban on slaughterhouses: in Sentience Institute's 2017 survey of 1,094 U.S. adults' attitudes toward animal farming, 49% "support a ban on factory farming, 47% support a ban on slaughterhouses, and 33% support a ban on animal farming".