Read the facts about factory farming and watch the video at the end of this article!  Update Nov. 6, 2008: 6.2 million California voters agreed Proposition 2, the California Prevention of Farm Cruelty Act, should become law. T ...

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                                     Up date July, 2008: The Farm Bill initially passed by Congress included this anti-animal fighting bill. President George W. Bush vetoed the bill, but both the ...

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On September 11, 2006, I rescued a dog that was dying at the end of a chain in a muddy yard in a small Pennsylvania town. I was subsequently arrested. A little over a year later, on December 15, 2007, I was convicted of theft and receiving stolen ...

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Update May 27, 2009:  "Since [Jay] Blatche came to Catawba County about 18 months ago, the shelter has not used the gas chamber for euthanizing animals. The only method is lethal injection. While Blatche would like to see all the animals at th ...

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Update Mar. 23, 2009 : Fulton County Superior Court Judge Tom Campbell of the Atlanta Judicial Circuit entered a permanent injunction against the Georgia Department of Agriculture on Mar. 12, 2009. The injunction prohibits the GDOA from conti ...

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The St. Louis City Board of Aldermen has adopted restrictions on the tethering of dogs!  Mayor Francis Slay is expected to sign the bill. Under the new law no dog or cat can be tethered outside for more than 10 continuous hours and no more than 12 ho ...

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Michigan has changed its scheme for punishing animal cruelty and neglect.  In bills that have now been signed into law by Governor Jennifer Granholm, those convicted of animal cruelty or neglect will for the most part, be charged and sentenced dep ...

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The Feral Cat Spay/Neuter Project has altered over 30,000 cats in the Puget Sound area of Washington state.  The local public television station, KCTS, has run a program featuring the work on this group.  In conjunction with the program, ...

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Update Feb. 25, 2008: Grimes was sentenced to probation, 300 hours of community service and fines totalling $3878.99.  Update December 14, 2007 late afternoon: A Blair County, Pennsylvania jury has found Tammy Grimes gui ...

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Update May 19, 2009: A grass-roots campaign to stop the use of the gas chamber in Spalding County, Georgia, appears to have succeeded.  The County Commissioners are expected to vote in July on a budget that lists euthanasia by injection (EBI) rath ...

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Update Feb. 20, 2009:  The stipulated order entered by the Superior Court required that Los Angeles County's Dept. of Animal Care and Control (DACC): l. will not kill an animal during the mandated holding period unless the animal meets narr ...

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                                           by Laura Allen for the Animal Law Coalition This is not really my story ...

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                                           On November 27, 2007 Baltimore's Mayor Sheila Dixon signed into law changes to ...

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Washington University in St. Louis has announced its medical school will no longer use live pigs in a student lab. With the Medical College of New York's decision to end the use of live dogs in its first year physiology course ( Click here ...

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On August 1, 2007 the Ohio Supreme Court found Ohio and Toledo breed specific laws are constitutional. Both the state of Ohio and Toledo laws say pit bull type dogs are automatically deemed "vicious" dogs and subject to certain restriction ...

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 By John Holland (reprinted with permission) Bring in your children and potted plants and barricade your  door...they're coming! No, it is not Al Qaeda or even the Iranian  Revolutionary Guard. The abandoned horses are coming and ...

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State: Michigan   December 20, 2007 EFFECTIVE DATE: April 1, 2008 STATE OF MICHIGAN 94TH LEGISLATURE REGULAR SESSION OF 2007 Introduced by Reps. Espinoza, Polidori, Byrum, Byrnes, Brown, LeBlanc, Kathleen Law, Wojno, ...

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Update October 10, 2008:  The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments this week in the Navy's appeal of a preliminary injunction issued to require mitigation measures during its use of mid-frequency active sonar during training exercises off the S ...

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Case Western Reserve University has announced it will stop using live dogs, cats and ferrets for teaching purposes. The animals were used to teach surgeries and other medical techniques to 4th year medical students.  The school has said i ...

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Update January 18, 2007 :  Despite a finding by the Senate in the Farm bill that more study is needed, the Food and Drug Administration decided this week to allow production and marketing of food from cloned animals except sheep. The FDA ...

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 Update May 10, 2008 Governor Sonny Perdue has now signed this bill into law. Update March 28, 2008: The Georgia House  voted overwhelmingly to accept the Senate substitute described in our earlier report below. The Georgia Senate then ...

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State: § 2156.  Animal fighting venture prohibition (a) Sponsoring or exhibiting an animal in an animal fighting venture.    (1) In general. Except as provided in paragraph (2), it shall be unlawful for any person to ...

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Update : This provision did pass in the final version of the farm bill vetoed by President George W. Bush. Congress overrode the veto.  Original report : As part of the 2007 Farm bill and as an amendment to the Animal Welfare Act, ...

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State: Georgia 4-11-5.1. Euthanasia of dogs and cats by animal shelters or facilities operated for collection of stray, neglected, abandoned, or unwanted animals. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this Code section, the use o ...

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By Libby Cluett for the Mineral Wells Index (r eprinted with permission)  From Spaniards to Apache horsemen; from pioneers to the Pony Express riders, horses helped America's inhabitants traverse its vast terrain. To many human ...

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Article © 2007 (reprinted with permission) This document was originally produced by the AVMA (American Veterinary Medical Association) to explain its position in opposition to the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act. The paragraphs preced ...

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State: Ohio Local ordinances or resolutions to control dogs. (A) For the purposes of this section, ordinances or resolutions to control dogs include, but are not limited to, ordinances or resolutions concerned with the ownership, ke ...

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