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Animal legal defense fund
This is a non-profit organization that collects money to help promote and protect the interests of animals in legal situations. They also help provide money to various legal cases that are undergoing and involving animal rights. -
PETA is founded
PETA stands for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. This is the largest animal rights organization in the world and they help fight for the protection of animals in various industries such as farms, laboratories, entertainment, and clothing. This organization was created by Ingrid Newkirk and gained a large amount of its attention from the Silver Spring monkey case that exhibited the cruel and unusual testing of monkeys in Maryland. -
FARM
FARM stands for the Farm Animal RIghts Movement which was established in 1981 and its main objective is to promote a Vegan diet and regards meat as an evil. This organization is not quite as large as the others but still has a major impact on society. Every year in March they promote at Meatout day that encourages people to give up meat for one day. -
Fur Free Friday
This is also a yearly protest that began in 1986 and it fights to spread awareness of the millions of animals that are killed each year on fur farms just for their pelts. According to the Fur Free Friday website, about 50 million animals are killed each year for their furs, not including over a billion rabbits that are killed as well. -
Animal Enterprise Protection Act
This act was passed in 1992 and gives people who are being convicted of animal terrorism a little more leeway in their sentencings. This helps protect those individuals who are owners of animals from groups or organizations that are radically opposed to the posession of animals. -
GM Stops using Live Animals
General Motors used to use animals such as dogs, rabbits, pigs, and mice, in their crash tests. This caused a huge outrage from PETA and they threatened to boycott all GM products until they stopped using the animals. Although they claimed all the animals were given anesthetics, it is still very inhumane to sacrifice so many animals lives for tests. GM claimed that it could not have got the results from simply using computers or dummies. -
Compassion Over Killing
Developed out of Washington, D.C., this is a nonprofit organization that has a main objective to end animal abuse and promote a vegan diet. By heavily promoting an all vegetarian diet, they are also promoting the end of abuse against animals. They go around in front of restaurants, schools, and posting in local newspapers and profess their case for veganism. Below is a link to a video showing the cruel punishment these animals received.
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Huntington Life Sciences
The Huntington Life Sciences testing center is location in Britain and is one of the largest animal testing centers in the world. Zoe Broughton was a member of channel four news and got a job in the laboratory as an undercover worker. She spends 64 days working there in various different areas and sheds light on all the cruel things they do to animals like dogs, rabbits, pigs, and cats. They say that roughly 500 animals would die each and every day in that laboratory. -
Horse Slaughter Ends in US
The Humane Society of the United States had been working hard to stop the slaughter of horses for a long time and were finally able to. A girl brought new light to this cruel act when she told the public how they took her horse and slaughtered it for meat that would be shipped to other countries. Although this stopped US slaughtering, it did not stop the selling and transporting of hoses for slaughter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J250sHlodM
