by Nadya Hall | Aug 5, 2015 | Animal Welfare, Government, Law & Policy
Nadya Hall, Pace ’15, is a psychology major and animal advocate who led the Wildlife Team of the Pace Environmental Policy Clinic. This post also appears on her blog, which you can follow here. «« »» ON TUESDAY, Federal District Court Judge B. Lynn Winmill...
by John Cronin | Mar 8, 2014 | Animal Welfare, Law & Policy
In 2012, workers from Bettencourt Dairies of Wendelll, Idaho were caught sexually molesting, beating, punching and kicking cows in an undercover video shot by Mercy for Animals of Los Angeles. The workers were convicted of animal cruelty and fired. The Idaho...
by John Cronin | Nov 2, 2013 | Animal Welfare, General, Law & Policy
On Thanksgiving Sunday 2006, President George W. Bush signed into law the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA), a breathtaking statute designed to make illegal the exercise of free speech against animal torture, and to brand animal activists as terrorists. It is...
by EarthDesk | Jul 22, 2013 | Animal Welfare, Corporate Responsibility
By Stephen Wells Editor’s Note: Today the Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) filed suit to overturn Utah’s Ag Gag law. In his April 27 EarthDesk post, contributor David Cassuto wrote about the Draconian...
by David Cassuto | Apr 27, 2013 | Animal Welfare, Law & Policy
Agricultural animals are not covered by the federal Animal Welfare Act. Many states also exclude them from their anti-cruelty laws. As a result, they have virtually no legal protections at all and spend their short lives in horrific misery before being turned into...