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...