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unusual facts about animal cruelty



Animal Cops: Detroit

It takes place in Detroit, Michigan, home of the Michigan Humane Society (MHS), and focuses on the exploits of five animal cruelty field agents and the staff physicians and animal evaluators at the MHS.

ASPCA Humane Law Enforcement Division

Animal Precinct - Animal Planet's documentary reality television series that follows the agents, including agent Tina Salaks, of the ASPCA's Humane Law Enforcement Division in their investigations of animal cruelty.

Muggle-Wump

The Muggle-Wump in this story has a wife and children and is subject to animal cruelty at the hands of Mr and Mrs Twit, who are retired circus trainers.


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Adolf Hitler and vegetarianism

Some modern day analysis has theorized that Hitler's vegetarianism may been due to Richard Wagner's historical theories, or even a psychological reaction to his niece's death rather than a commitment to animal welfare, but these theories are contradicted by reports that he was often distressed by images of animal cruelty and suffering, as well as being an antivivisectionist.

Art Lentini

In 1990, state Representative Garey Forster, a New Orleans Republican, had introduced two bills, one to ban the practice outright and another to reclassify fowl as "animals" so that they could secure the protection of animal-cruelty laws.

Cruelty to animals

The "Toro Jubilo" or Toro embolado in Soria, Medinaceli, Spain, is a festival associated with animal cruelty.

Fluorinert

While several rats were shown actually breathing Fluorinert (this scene was cut in the United Kingdom as it was seen as animal cruelty), scenes depicting actor Ed Harris using the fluid-breathing apparatus were simulated.

Hillside Animal Sanctuary

Hillside the animal sanctuary and also Hillside's separate work in uncovering animal cruelty have both featured in television programmes, including Channel 4's It's Me or the Dog, BBC Three's The Baby Borrowers and the BBC Two programme Escape to the Country which has an episode dedicated to Hillside.

KAT Centre

The KAT Centre’s goals are to create a healthy, sustainable street dog population, reduce animal cruelty, and eliminate rabies, around Kathmandu, Nepal.

Lawrence G. Walters

Walters has filed Amicus Curiae briefs at the United States Supreme Court, on behalf of the First Amendment Lawyers Association, in two significant Free Speech cases; United States v. Stephens, dealing with depictions of animal cruelty, and Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association.

Noblesse oblige

Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts uses the phrase disparagingly in his majority opinion concerning the government's assertion that it will selectively prosecute animal cruelty videos based on their own interpretation of The First Amendment in United States v. Stevens.