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    The Animal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Society (ADAVS), also known as the Animal Defence Society was an animal welfare organisation, co-founded in England...
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    Vivisection (from Latin vivus 'alive' and sectio 'cutting') is surgery conducted for experimental purposes on a living organism, typically animals with...
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  • Education and Anti-Vivisection Society, the Anti-Vivisection Society of British Columbia in 1930 and the Animal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Society of British...
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  • organization, taking its name and branding for all its activities. The BUAV was formed in response to the National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS) supporting restrictive...
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    cruelty to animals (SPCA). In the United Kingdom, and historically in the United States, such societies provide waterway rescue, prevention and recovery...
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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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    the house was used as an animal sanctuary by his wife Nina, co-founder in 1906 of the Animal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Society with Lizzy Lind af Hageby...
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  • Agnes Estcourt-Oswald (category British animal welfare workers)
    February 1965) was a British ophthalmologist who advocated for animal welfare and anti-vivisection. Estcourt-Oswald was born in 1874 in Peshawar. She graduated...
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  • Rhino Sanctuary Animal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Society Assisi Animal Sanctuary Badger Trust Battersea Dogs and Cats Home (London) Blue Cross Born Free...
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    Brown Dog affair (redirect from Anti-dogger)
    November, and pledged to withdraw the diary and pass its remaining copies to Bayliss's solicitors. The Animal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Society, founded...
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    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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    Margaret Damer Dawson (category English animal rights activists)
    the Animal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Society. The organisation campaigned against cruelty and the socially acceptable circus performing animals and the...
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    Alice Drakoules (category British animal welfare workers)
    organisations, including the Vegetarian Society, Humanitarian League, Animal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Society, and the League Against Cruel Sports. Alice...
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    Illinois Humane Society and supported animal welfare. The organization was founded as the Illinois Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in 1869....
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  • deserve legal protection. The animal rights movement emerged in the 19th century, focused largely on opposition to vivisection, and in the 1960s the modern...
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  • role in animal advocacy since the 19th century. The animal advocacy movement – embracing animal rights, animal welfare, and anti-vivisectionism – has been...
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    and rioting in London by medical students. In 1906 Lind af Hageby co-founded the Animal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Society and later ran an animal sanctuary...
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  • Cambridgeshire. According to Mark Matfield of the Research Defence Society, a pro-animal testing lobby group in the UK, HLS lost a great deal of business...
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    American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), with America's first specifically anti-vivisection organization being the American AntiVivisection...
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    Puppy mill (category Animal breeders)
    organizations such as the Humane Society of the United States began to investigate breeding kennels, leading to the passage of the Animal Welfare Act of August 24...
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    Douglas S. S. Steuart (category British animal welfare workers)
    "Nurse and Playmate of the Wolves". The Evening Telegraph. April 24, 1948. p. 5. (subscription required) Animal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Society Report...
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  • activities of protestors. The SPEAK campaign was a continuation and expansion of anti-vivisection efforts after the victory against Cambridge. "Migrating from...
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    Peter Wohlleben (category Animal cognition writers)
    academy. While Wohlleben advocates for animal welfare and has raised awareness about the treatment of animals, and has stated that "It's okay to eat plants...
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  • from 1936 to 1938, an organization connected to the Animal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Society. Jules Rühl died in 1936 on a platform at the Gare du...
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    G. N. W. Thomas (category Anti-hunting activists)
    Gathering". The Devon and Exeter Gazette. March 5, 1927. p. 5. (subscription required) Animal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Society Report for the Year 1933...
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  • Lord Dowding Fund for Humane Research (category Anti-vivisection organizations)
    Research (LDF) – a department of the National Anti-Vivisection Society, the world's first anti-vivisection organisation – awards grants to scientists undertaking...
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    her at events on behalf of the Animal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Society, and organising the wedding of Margaret and James Drummond-Hay, at which she...
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  • specious defence of vivisection on the ground of its being for the interests of science." In 1876 the Cruelty to Animals Act was passed to control animal experimentation...
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    Anti-Vivisection Society and involved with the Anti-Bearing Rein Association, National Canine Defence League (now Dogs Trust) and the Royal Society for...
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    animal rights organisation aiming to end vivisection in the UK. In March 2006, he came to public attention again when he defended the use of animals in...
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