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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDid You Know THat The FBI Now Considers Animal Abuse A Class A felony?
"Now, animal cruelty will be listed in a similar manner to major crimes such as assault, homicide, and arson. It will divide the crime into four categories; intentional abuse and torture, simple or gross neglect, organized abuse (like dogfighting and cockfighting), and animal sexual abuse.Apr 19, 2019"
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=The+FBI+Has+Determined+AnimalAbuse+To+Be+A+Class+A+Felony
I did not know but am thrilled and thanful for this
Ohio Joe
(21,755 posts)Hekate
(90,681 posts)mucifer
(23,542 posts)Phoenix61
(17,003 posts)radical noodle
(8,000 posts)Also probably rodeos, zoos, and horse racing.
Phoenix61
(17,003 posts)Deuxcents
(16,202 posts)MarineCombatEngineer
(12,375 posts)most serial killers started out by abusing, torturing and killing animals and then graduated to humans.
I'm very pleased to see this.
Me.
(35,454 posts)S.Korea to grant legal status to animals to tackle abuse
Korea is one of a handful of countries to recognize animals as beings, with a right to protection, enhanced welfare and respect for life.
mucifer
(23,542 posts)MarineCombatEngineer
(12,375 posts)I quickly scrolled through it and will read it in more depth when I'm have time.
Phoenix61
(17,003 posts)NullTuples
(6,017 posts)Welcome to the GOP's idea of utopia....
Tetrachloride
(7,841 posts)RockRaven
(14,966 posts)is fair and unbiased in regards to enforcement/non-enforcement decisions. Whether that unbiased fairness comes to fruition... Well, the track record of the FBI and US in general leaves a bit to be desired there. But one hopes anyway.
Me.
(35,454 posts)Never thought I would see anything like this in this country
brer cat
(24,565 posts)Animals deserve kindness not abuse.
Me.
(35,454 posts)StarryNite
(9,444 posts)The USDA's War on Wildlife
Overview & Kill Data
Wildlife Services is a strategically misnamed federal program within the USDA that wastes millions of dollars each year killing wild animals with traps, snares, poisons, gas, and aerial gunning at the request of corporate agriculture and the hunting lobby. According to their official reports, they have slaughtered close to 30 million animals in just the last decade. Even worse, we've had whistleblowers tell us repeatedly that Wildlife Services' real kill numbers are significantly higher, just not reported.
In 2022 alone they claim to have killed over 1.8 million animals, including 384,300 native wild animals. 2022 kills include the following vital native predators:
56,089 coyotes (plus unknown # of pups in 200 destroyed dens)
2,432 foxes
515 bobcats
450 black bears
219 gray wolves
205 mountain lions (cougars)
7 grizzly bears (federally protected)
[link:https://www.predatordefense.org/USDA.htm#:~:text=Overview%20%26%20Kill%20Data,agriculture%20and%20the%20hunting%20lobby.|
Me.
(35,454 posts)and many people are fighting for animal rights. I never thought I'd read anthing like that..
ancianita
(36,055 posts)We ruin their habitats then kill them as they're forced into human areas.
Duppers
(28,120 posts)There are many ppl who are just terrified of any wild animal.
A neighbor killed "my" gray foxes who visited me every night for months - I'm still holding a huge grudge against that man.
(Even my big Lab honored my command not to chase these fox away; she grew to understand that they posed no danger.)
There are just too many stupid people.
Skittles
(153,160 posts)ABSOLUTELY
soldierant
(6,857 posts)is that it would be rare for the Feds to be involved in an animal abuse investigation leading to prosecutuin. It migh be handy as an additional charge against a perp being investigated and prosecuted for some more obviously Federal crime. It's the states that need to have this law on the books.