Cruelty to animals, also called animal abuse, animal neglect or animal cruelty, is the infliction of suffering or harm by humans upon animals, either...
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Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to preventing animal cruelty. Based in New York City since...
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RSPCA (redirect from Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals)
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) is a charity operating in England and Wales which promotes animal welfare. The RSPCA is funded...
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unnecessary pain or suffering on animals and to amend the laws relating to the prevention of cruelty to animals. The act defines "animal" as 'any living creature...
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A Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) is a common name for non-profit animal welfare organizations around the world. The oldest SPCA...
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The Cruelty to Animals Act 1835 (5 & 6 Will. 4. c. 59) or the Humane Act 1835, or the Protection of Animals Act 1835, was an act of the Parliament of...
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Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (also known as the Scottish SPCA and SSPCA) is a charity to promote animal welfare in Scotland. It was...
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animals anywhere in the world. Products tested on animals or made from animals are not considered cruelty-free, since these tests are often painful and cause...
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for animal experimentation, amending the Cruelty to Animals Act 1849. It was a public general Act. The Act was replaced 110 years later by the Animals (Scientific...
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Retrieved 2013-08-18. "Cruelty". Law.com. Retrieved July 12, 2012. "Cruelty to animals". Law.com. Retrieved July 12, 2012. "Animal Cruelty Law & Legal Definition"...
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Two PETA employees were acquitted in 2007 of cruelty to animals after at least 80 euthanized animals were left in dumpsters in a shopping center in...
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however, if they currently do not test on animals, these cosmetics are considered "cruelty-free". Using animal testing in the development of cosmetics may...
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Macdonald triad (section Cruelty to animals)
acts of cruelty to animals. During childhood, serial killers could not retaliate toward those who caused them humiliation, so they chose animals because...
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India's first national animal welfare law, the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act (1960), criminalizes cruelty to animals, though exceptions are made...
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in animal care and protection, and to prevent cruelty to animals by actively promoting their care and protection. It also monitors the use of animals in...
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a global nonprofit organization that focuses on animal welfare and opposes animal-related cruelties of national scope. It uses strategies that are beyond...
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Victorian morality (section Cruelty to animals)
introduced the first legislation to prevent cruelty to animals, the Cruel Treatment of Cattle Act 1822; it pertained only to cattle and it passed easily in...
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6,028 animals in the first full year. On May 12, 1910, the Women's Auxiliary separated from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and they...
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DSPCA (redirect from Dublin Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals)
The Dublin Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was established in 1840, and is the oldest and largest animal welfare charity in Ireland. Initially...
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most of the animal tortures depicted were outlawed by the Cruelty to Animals Act 1835, so by the 1850s The Four Stages of Cruelty had come to be viewed...
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Humane society (category Animal welfare organizations)
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...
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Vivisection (category Animal testing techniques)
other physiologists. The Cruelty to Animals Act, 1876 in Britain determined that one could only conduct vivisection on animals with the appropriate license...
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The Animals' Friend Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was an animal welfare organisation founded in 1832 by Lewis Gompertz and T. Forster...
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awareness for animals living in cruel conditions. Its first shelter for small animals opened in 1904. Anti-Cruelty’s first campaign to eliminate animal mistreatment/provide...
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MSPCA-Angell (redirect from Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals-Angell Animal Medical Center)
The Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals-Angell Animal Medical Center (MSPCA-Angell) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with...
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Zoosadism (category Cruelty to animals)
sexual pleasure derived from cruelty to animals. It is a paraphilia, where people are sexually aroused by torturing animals. Zoosadism is part of the Macdonald...
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states that passed anti-cruelty laws between 1828 and 1898. In India, animals are protected by the "Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960". Significant...
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Henry Bergh (category American animal welfare workers)
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) in April, 1866, three days after the first effective legislation against animal cruelty in the United States...
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NSPCA (redirect from National Council of Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals - South Africa)
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NSPCA), also known as the National Council of SPCAs, is the largest and oldest animal welfare organisation in...
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for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Performing Animal Welfare Society Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals SANCCOB (seabirds, based in...
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