All animals have rights

Animal Rights Movement (*note: events labeled January 1st indicate that no exact date was specified)

By rebeccasherwood

  • First Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) was formed in England.

    SPCA Commercial
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    Animal Rights Movement

  • American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was founded by Henry Berg.

  • SPCA was formed in Philadelphia.

  • SPCA was formed in Boston.

  • Laws passed by The American Humane Association "prohibiting the repetition of experiments on animals for the purpose of teaching or demonstrating well known accepted facts."

    [Official Website](www.americanhumane.org/)

  • The American Welfare Institute and The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) were founded.

    [Animal Welfare Institute Official Website](www.awionline.org/)
    [HSUS Official Website](www.humanesociety.org/)

  • Lab Animal Welfare Act (LAWA) of USA signed into law.

  • Congress passed Animal Welfare Act, regulating the use of animals in labs.

    Act Information

  • Welfarists, Pragmatists, and Fundamentalists (animal protection groups) were formed.

  • New Jersey law signed prohibiting the seizure of pound animals for laboratory use.

  • Rhode Island law signed prohibiting the seizure of pound animals for laboratory use.

  • The animal rights movement successfully repeals the Metcalf-Hatch Act which required municipal pounds to sell animals to research.

  • U.S. passes and ratifies several national and international acts protecting species from extinction and endangerment; e.g. Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, Endangered Species Act, Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species (CITES).

  • Peter Singer's publication of Animal Liberation released.

  • lawyer named Tischler organized Attorneys for Animal Rights (AFAR) .

  • Animal Legal Defense Fund is established.

    Official Website

  • National Anti-Vivisection Society establishes World Lab Animal Day, which has evolved into World Laboratory Animal Week.

  • Switzerland begins phasing out battery cages for poultry by requiring 500cm for caged 2 birds.

  • European Commission bans the importation of seal fur.

  • Sweden outlaws battery cages and mandates that farm and fur production animals must be maintained in "as natural an environment as possible."

  • U.S. Animal Welfare Act is amended to increase psychological requirements for primates and to require exercise for dogs.

  • People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is founded.

    [Official Website](www.peta.org/)

  • People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is founded.

  • Farm Animal Reform Movement establishes World Farm Animals Day.

  • ASPCA called for a boycott of Ringling Brothers after it tried to pass off goats w/horns surgically implanted in their skulls as "living unicorns."

  • The first annual Great American Meatout is organized by Farm Animal Reform Movement.

  • Farm Sanctuary is founded.

    [Official Website](www.farmsanctuary.org/)

  • Fur Free Friday, an annual nation-wide fur protest on the day after Thanksgiving, begins.

  • California high school student Jenifer Graham makes national headlines when she refuses to dissect a frog.

  • Became illegal for any ship to dump its plastic trash in U.S. oceans or navigable waters to protect marine wildlife from getting entangled, caught, and strangled in the plastic.

  • Animal rights activists placed a referendum on the Massachusetts ballot that would have severely restricted animal agriculture in the state.

  • Avon stops testing their products on animals.

  • Revlon stops testing their products on animals.

  • Animal Enterprise Protection Act is passed.

  • General Motors stops using live animals in crash tests.

  • The Great Ape Project is founded.

    Greener Ideal

  • New fur law was passed.

    Any country who exports fur to Europe must either ban leg hold traps or adopt international humane trapping standards.

  • Compassion Over Killing is founded.

    Compassion Over Killing Video

  • PETA releases an undercover video showing animal abuse by Huntington Life Sciences.

  • An investigation by The Humane Society of the US reveals that Burlington Coat Factory is selling products made from dog and cat fur.

  • Compassion Over Killing conducts an open rescue at a battery hen facility, documenting abuses and rescuing 8 hens.

  • Clothing chain Forever 21 promises to stop selling fur.

  • US Congress pulls funding for inspections of horse meat.

  • The "SHAC 7" are convicted under the Animal Enterprise Protection Act.

    Official Website

  • Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act is passed.

  • Horse slaughter ends in the United States, but live horses continue to be exported for slaughter.

  • Toronto Star, Debra Black Despite the recession and the animal rights movement, fur is once more returning to the fashion runways of both Europe and North America.