Farmers, vets and keepers of animals have always had to make hard decisions in the interest of the health and welfare of animal populations, both wild and domesticated.
The anti-whalers supplement their environmental objections with policies based on notions of animal welfare or animal rights.
He was found guilty of animal welfare offences alongside his wife and three of his children.
But the use of chimpanzees in his research made him a target of animal welfare advocates.
For reasons of animal welfare, farmers can no longer keep pigs confined in stalls.
His son, wife and daughters were also found guilty of animal welfare offences.
James Gray, 46, of Amersham, was sentenced to a 26-week jail term when he was found guilty of animal welfare offences.
Meanwhile Health Commissioner John Dalli said that it would give the EU the highest standards of animal welfare in the world.
The proposed leaflet also includes the relevant sections of animal welfare legislation.
"There are strong views for and against the use of electronic training aids, which a number of animal welfare organisations believe are cruel and unnecessary, " said Ms Jones.
She became an MBE in 1980 and was honoured by the RSPCA in 2001 with the Lord Erskine Award for her contribution to the field of animal welfare.
The following morning, the websites of animal welfare groups, like Animals Australia and RSPCA, could not cope with the number of people who wanted to sign their online petitions.
Such treatment is possible through a loophole that allows for religious slaughter a loophole that the same champions of animal welfare in the European Parliament voted to avoid closing on May 7th.
"If we had stopped the industry operating then we might have seen all kinds of animal welfare issues as well as possible illegal slaughter and the trade going underground, " Mr Rhodes added.
In Britain, DiYists have done much to put issues of animal welfare on the political agenda and probably more than anybody else to call in question the country's once politically impregnable road-building programme.
He views feel-good campaigns around adopting pets--the bread-and-butter of the mainstream animal welfare movement--as an important but incomplete part of the solution.
The slaughtering issue has risen to the level of an article by two animal-welfare activists in the latest issue of the august quarterly Foreign Affairs.
Mrs Hart added the new owners had been made aware of their animal welfare and environmental obligations.
Gray's wife, Julie, 42, and daughters, Jodie, 27, and Cordelia, 21, had each been found guilty of two animal welfare offences.
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is among many animal welfare agencies that are trying to help the hundreds of thousands of creatures victimized by the hurricane.
In June, company owner Jack DeCoster admitted to 10 civil counts of animal cruelty in Maine after a nonprofit animal welfare group conducted an undercover video investigation and forwarded its findings to Maine animal welfare officials.
Last month the committee decided to seek the views of the Companion Animal Welfare Council which conducts studies and provides advice on animal welfare.
In connection with the dogs, Smith admitted two charges under the Animal Welfare Act 2006 of failing to provide a suitable environment for them on 14 February and 16 February.
At Scarborough Magistrates' Court on 19 December Wilson admitted an offence under the Animal Welfare Act 2006 of abandoning a cat and making no provision for its needs, and two counts of theft.
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As well as animal welfare concerns over rearing large numbers of farm animals in close proximity, the water use, farmland for animal feed, waste and greenhouse-gas emissions associated with meat production make it one of the most significant environmental problems in the world today.
This summer, Denmark's powerful farm lobby is under siege from an unusual coalition of environmentalists, animal-welfare people and the tourism industry.
The long-distance transportation of animals for slaughter is "a madness", according to veterinary surgeon David Wilkins, Director of the Eurogroup for Animal Welfare.
With the world's eyes on China as the Beijing Olympics looms, the country is touting its concern about animal welfare as a mark of a civilised society.
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"Dog owners already have a duty of care under the Animal Welfare Act but it can be difficult to ensure that this duty is being met without a reliable form of identification, " he said.
Catherine Nakielny of the Farmers' Union of Wales animal health and welfare committee chairman said farmers needed to be on the lookout for any unusually high animal abortion cases or congenital abnormalities - deformed lambs, swollen heads or weak lambs.
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