animal protection: Fw: [petlaw] History of AR

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Fw: [petlaw] History of AR - for information

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From: Mike Frazer <ms_frazer@yahoo.com>
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Close, but. . . probably the first anti-cruelty law (has nothing to do with modern? so called animal-rights issues) was established 1641 by the Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony legal code called "The Body of Liberties."

"Liberty #92 - No man shall exercise any Tirranny or Crueltie toward and bruite Creature which are usuallie kept for man's use."

--- On Mon, 7/13/09, Magnolia Farm <magnoliafarm@ dishmail. net> wrote:

From: Magnolia Farm <magnoliafarm@ dishmail. net>
Subject: [petlaw] History of AR - for information
To: pet-law@yahoogroups .com
Date: Monday, July 13, 2009, 8:57 PM

Animal Rights Movement
http://www.sonoma. edu/users/ w/wallsd/ animal-rights- movement. shtml

The Animal Protection Movement. Prevention of cruelty to animals
became an important movement in early 19th Century England, where it
grew alongside the humanitarian current that advanced human rights,
including the anti-slavery movement and later the movement for woman
suffrage. The first anti-cruelty bill, intended to stop bull-baiting,
was introduced in Parliament in 1800. In 1822 Colonel Richard Martin
succeeded in passing an act in the House of Commons preventing cruelty
to such larger domestic animals as horses and cattle; two years later
he organized the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
(SPCA) to help enforce the law. Queen Victoria commanded the addition
of the prefix "Royal" to the Society in 1840.

Addendum: It is reported that Bergh stopped in or traveled to London
to speak with the head of RSPCA and after this began speaking on
animal cruelty.AS

Following the British model, Henry Bergh organized the American SPCA
in New York in 1866 after returning from his post in St. Petersburg as
secretary to the American legation in Russia; he hoped it would become
national in scope, but the ASPCA remained primarily an animal shelter
program for New York City.

Other SPCAs and Humane Societies were founded in the U.S. beginning in
the late 1860s (often with support from abolitionists) with groups in
Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and San Francisco among the first.
Originally concerned with enforcing anti-cruelty laws, they soon began
running animal shelters along the lines of a model developed in
Philadelphia. The American Humane Association (AHA), with divisions
for children and animals, was founded in 1877, and emerged as the
leading national advocate for animal protection and child protection
services.

There is more and good synopsis.... .....
AS

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