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    A Few Notes on Cruelty to Animals; on the Inadequacy of Penal Law; on General Hospitals for Animals is an 1846 book by English surgeon and animal welfare...
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  • Ralph Fletcher (surgeon) (category British animal welfare scholars)
    psychosomatic medicine, and A Few Notes on Cruelty to Animals (1846), an early work highlighting abuses against animals and calling for reform. Fletcher...
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    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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  • 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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    responded to accusations of animal cruelty by instituting a number of rules to guide how rodeo animals are to be managed. In 1994, a survey of 28 sanctioned...
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  • 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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    Puppy mill (category Cruelty to animals)
    the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) filed a lawsuit in 2021 against the USDA "for abandoning its responsibility to enforce the Animal Welfare Act (AWA)"...
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    animal rights movement, cruelty-free is a label for products or activities that do not harm or kill animals anywhere in the world. Products tested on...
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    Vivisection (category Animal testing techniques)
    purposes on a living organism, typically animals with a central nervous system, to view living internal structure. The word is, more broadly, used as a pejorative...
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    test on animals, these cosmetics are considered "cruelty-free". Using animal testing in the development of cosmetics may involve testing either a finished...
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    Humane society (category Animal welfare organizations)
    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...
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    Dumb Animals was an American animal welfare magazine published from 1868 to 1970 by the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; it...
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  • Thumbnail for Philippine Animal Welfare Society
    Philippine Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) is a volunteer-based, non-government organization whose goal is to prevent animal cruelty through education, animal sheltering...
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  • prohibit the mistreatment of animals, except for a more generic law protecting wildlife. However, the World Animal Protection notes that some legislation protecting...
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    Society and supported animal welfare. The organization was founded as the Illinois Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in 1869. It was founded...
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    be characterized as a symptom of a mental disorder rather than deliberate cruelty towards animals. Hoarders are deeply attached to their pets and find...
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    welfare for the animals used. The 3Rs have a broader scope than simply encouraging alternatives to animal testing, but aim to improve animal welfare and scientific...
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    concerns about cruelty towards animals and question its effectiveness and reliability. There are efforts underway to find alternatives to animal testing such...
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    Winifred Cavendish-Bentinck, Duchess of Portland (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    She was vice-president of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and was president of the ladies committee of the RSPCA. She was elected...
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  • Cannibal Holocaust (category Animal cruelty incidents in film)
    killing of animals. Yorke described the shoot as having "a level of cruelty unknown to me" and was initially unsure if he was taking part in a snuff film...
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  • is 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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  • Oliver (chimpanzee) (category 1957 animal births)
    a few years into Oliver's residency at the sanctuary, legal problems emerged after allegations of animal cruelty arose against the facility. Animal rights...
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  • G. H. Pember (category English animal rights scholars)
    cruelty to animals, and in rejecting the practice of the scientific dissection of living animals called vivisection. An early but failed attempt to pass...
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    seems to be patterned on the mutilation of animals", suggesting there is a parallel between rape and animal cruelty. Feminist veganism also relates to feminist...
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    Abandoned pets (category Abandoned animals)
    pets are companion animals that are either inadvertently or deliberately abandoned by their owners, by either dumping the animals on the streets, leaving...
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    Cockfighting (category Cruelty to animals)
    Court proclaiming the practice to be in direct violation of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1960. According to M Ravindranath Babu Superintendent...
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    Lilli Lehmann (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from Appleton's Cyclopedia)
    November 1848 – 17 May 1929) was a German operatic dramatic coloratura soprano. She was also a voice teacher and animal welfare advocate. The future opera...
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    Trapping (redirect from Animal trap)
    Animal trapping, or simply trapping or ginning, is the use of a device to remotely catch and often kill an animal. Animals may be trapped for a variety...
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    Peter Wohlleben (category Animal cognition writers)
    advocates for animal welfare and has raised awareness about the treatment of animals, and has stated that "It's okay to eat plants. It's okay to eat meat,...
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    Zoophilia is a paraphilia in which a person experiences a sexual fixation on non-human animals. Bestiality instead refers to cross-species sexual activity...
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