Animal Rights Movement (*note: events labeled January 1st indicate that no exact date was specified)
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First Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) was formed in England.
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Animal Rights Movement
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American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was founded by Henry Berg.
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SPCA was formed in Philadelphia.
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SPCA was formed in Boston.
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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.
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Congress passed Animal Welfare Act, regulating the use of animals in labs.
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Welfarists, Pragmatists, and Fundamentalists (animal protection groups) were formed.
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New Jersey law signed prohibiting the seizure of pound animals for laboratory use.
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Rhode Island law signed prohibiting the seizure of pound animals for laboratory use.
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The animal rights movement successfully repeals the Metcalf-Hatch Act which required municipal pounds to sell animals to research.
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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).
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Peter Singer's publication of Animal Liberation released.
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lawyer named Tischler organized Attorneys for Animal Rights (AFAR) .
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Animal Legal Defense Fund is established.
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National Anti-Vivisection Society establishes World Lab Animal Day, which has evolved into World Laboratory Animal Week.
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Switzerland begins phasing out battery cages for poultry by requiring 500cm for caged 2 birds.
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European Commission bans the importation of seal fur.
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Sweden outlaws battery cages and mandates that farm and fur production animals must be maintained in "as natural an environment as possible."
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U.S. Animal Welfare Act is amended to increase psychological requirements for primates and to require exercise for dogs.
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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.
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Farm Animal Reform Movement establishes World Farm Animals Day.
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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."
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The first annual Great American Meatout is organized by Farm Animal Reform Movement.
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Farm Sanctuary is founded.
[Official Website](www.farmsanctuary.org/) -
Fur Free Friday, an annual nation-wide fur protest on the day after Thanksgiving, begins.
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California high school student Jenifer Graham makes national headlines when she refuses to dissect a frog.
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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.
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Animal rights activists placed a referendum on the Massachusetts ballot that would have severely restricted animal agriculture in the state.
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Avon stops testing their products on animals.
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Revlon stops testing their products on animals.
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Animal Enterprise Protection Act is passed.
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General Motors stops using live animals in crash tests.
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The Great Ape Project is founded.
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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.
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PETA releases an undercover video showing animal abuse by Huntington Life Sciences.
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An investigation by The Humane Society of the US reveals that Burlington Coat Factory is selling products made from dog and cat fur.
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Compassion Over Killing conducts an open rescue at a battery hen facility, documenting abuses and rescuing 8 hens.
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Clothing chain Forever 21 promises to stop selling fur.
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US Congress pulls funding for inspections of horse meat.
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The "SHAC 7" are convicted under the Animal Enterprise Protection Act.
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Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act is passed.
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Horse slaughter ends in the United States, but live horses continue to be exported for slaughter.
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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.