https://padlet.com/105151/b4kf80es2jz9 People who commit animal abuse should be served with jail time. en-us 2019-02-26 17:48:38 UTC 2026-01-04 04:13:11 UTC hello@padlet.com https://hips.hearstapps.com/ghk.h-cdn.co/assets/17/30/1500922382-brittany-spaniel.jpg 105151 https://padlet.com/105151/b4kf80es2jz9/wish/335532347 Originally, the AWA only covered dogs, cats, nonhuman primates, guinea pigs, hamsters, and rabbits, but was expanded to include other warm-blooded animals in 1970. In 1976 an amendment made it illegal to promote sporting fights between animals that had been transported over state or national borders, later bolstered by the Animal Fighting Prohibition Enforcement Act of 2007. The passing of the Improved Standards of Laboratory Animals Act in 1985 expanded the minimum care requirements for protected lab animals beyond provisions for food and water, such as requiring the pursuit of alternatives for procedures known to cause animals pain. ]]> 2019-02-26 18:03:43 UTC https://padlet.com/105151/b4kf80es2jz9/wish/335532347 105151 https://padlet.com/105151/b4kf80es2jz9/wish/335534604 We may choose to ignore the poor taste of the animal rights movement in equating the Holocaust of World War II with the raising of broiler chickens or the "enslavement" of circus animals with the slavery of African Americans in the United States. But consider this curious candor from one animal rights leader, "The life of an ant and that of my child should be granted equal consideration." ]]> 2019-02-26 18:06:20 UTC https://padlet.com/105151/b4kf80es2jz9/wish/335534604 105151 https://padlet.com/105151/b4kf80es2jz9/wish/335535270 Animal rights advocates oppose keeping animals in captivity, asserting that doing so denies the animals their natural way of life and threatens their health and well-being. Thus, many oppose the use of animals for exhibition or entertainment purposes. Traveling circuses, for example, have long attracted protests from animal rights groups, which object to the treatment of circus animals during training, performances, and while in transit. ]]> 2019-02-26 18:07:25 UTC https://padlet.com/105151/b4kf80es2jz9/wish/335535270 105151 https://padlet.com/105151/b4kf80es2jz9/wish/338514079 According to the Foundation for Biomedical Research, a handful of illegal acts by animal extremist groups in 1994 had risen to a hundred such attacks ten years later. Society for Neuroscience members reported more attacks in the first six months of 2007 than in the five-year period from 1999 to 2003, prompting that organization to release, just this past February [2008], the document "Best Practices for Protecting Researchers and Research: Recommendations for Universities and Institutions."]]> 2019-03-06 17:46:15 UTC https://padlet.com/105151/b4kf80es2jz9/wish/338514079 105151 https://padlet.com/105151/b4kf80es2jz9/wish/338515334 FBI special agent David Szady, referring to Earth Liberation Front one extremist group of the animal rights movement, said, "Make no mistake about it, by any sense or definition is a domestic terrorism group." Animal rightists are domestic terrorists?]]> 2019-03-06 17:48:18 UTC https://padlet.com/105151/b4kf80es2jz9/wish/338515334 105151 https://padlet.com/105151/b4kf80es2jz9/wish/338519841 2019-03-06 17:56:08 UTC https://padlet.com/105151/b4kf80es2jz9/wish/338519841 105151 https://padlet.com/105151/b4kf80es2jz9/wish/338520555 2019-03-06 17:57:26 UTC https://padlet.com/105151/b4kf80es2jz9/wish/338520555 105151 https://padlet.com/105151/b4kf80es2jz9/wish/338523652 The inconvenient truth is that in the long term, and for all of us, there is cause for concern. The agenda of extreme animal rightists is crystal clear: end the use of all animals as food, clothing, pets, and subjects of medical research Yet we live longer and healthier lives due to vaccinations, better drugs, and improved information about nutrition and disease prevention longer lives are the result of animal research.]]> 2019-03-06 18:02:52 UTC https://padlet.com/105151/b4kf80es2jz9/wish/338523652 105151 https://padlet.com/105151/b4kf80es2jz9/wish/338525994 Animal rights advocates dispute several common practices as evidence of speciesism, which refers to the prejudiced favoring of one species, including humans, over others. Opponents of speciesism argue that all animals should be provided equal consideration under the law regardless of whether the species can serve human interests, whether the species population is threatened or endangered, whether the species exhibits cognitive ability, or whether the animal appeals to human aesthetics]]> 2019-03-06 18:07:23 UTC https://padlet.com/105151/b4kf80es2jz9/wish/338525994