often affords animals the indirect protection of laws intended to preserve social morality or the rights of animal owners, such as criminalanticruelty statutes or civil statutes that permit owners to obtain compensation for damages inflicted on their animals. Indeed, this sort of law presently defines...
and Brazil. It offers in-depth analyses and discussions of topical and important issues in animal laws and animal welfare, and provides a comprehensive and comparative snapshot of some of the most important countries in the world in terms of animal population and worsening animal cruelty. Among ...
NSW Weak on Animal Cruelty; Group Protesting for Tougher Laws
AUSTRALIA The Australian government has ended its reliance on new animal test data for ingredients in cosmetics. CANADA The Canadian Cruelty Free Cosmetics Act has been brought forward for a first reading in parliament. Find out more here
chickens. Under the law, people who abuse or neglect animals can be subject to fines, jail time, and community service. Animal cruelty laws also usually provide a mechanism for confiscating animals in abusive situations, allowing animal welfare organizations and agencies to intervene in cruelty ...
Cami, Zoe, Josephine and Shiqi look deeper into issues facing companion animals, such as puppy mills, cruelty and breed discrimination, cosmetic alterations, and what happens to animals when families break up. Advancements in companion animal protection include the PETS Act which benefits companion an...
California Penal Code § 597 PC prohibits animal abuse or cruelty, defined as maliciously killing, harming, maiming, or torturing a living animal. The crime can be charged as either a misdemeanor or a felony with a sentence of up to 3 years in jail or pr
including animal fighting and cruelty, factory farming, the fur trade, sports hunting, puppy mills, the use of chimpanzees in scientific and medical research, horse slaughter, pet care and adoption, the protection of animals in the wild, and the relation between religious values and animal welfare...
Woman seeks tougher animal cruelty laws
“challenged people to recognize the cruelty of keeping large, intelligent, and sentient animals in such small tanks.” However, AWI continues, fish are also “sentient—showing far more cognitive abilities than they are given credit for—and few, if any, spend their entire lives in the wild ...