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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Cruelty to animals"”.
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Harness Electricity, Free the Mules: Animal Rights and the Electrification of the Streetcars in New Orleans
<p>Prior to the streetcar lines being electrified in the late 1800s, equines pulled the cars. The quadrupeds that pulled the horsecars in New Orleans, Louisiana, were area specific: New Orleans had mules, not horses. The mule in the South is typically associated with the rural South; however, in …
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Unethical practices in exhibiting animals as observed by West Virginia extension agents and high school agriculture teachers
The purpose of this study was to determine the frequency of unethical practices in exhibiting animals observed by West Virginia extension agents and high school teachers. A researcher-created demographic sheet and a fifty-eight-statement Lickert type questionnaire were sent to all extension agents …
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The bureaucracy of empathy : vivisection and the question of animal pain in Britain, 1876-1912
… the Home Office's implementation of the Cruelty to Animals Act (1876), the first effort anywhere in the world to impose legal restrictions on vivisection, during the three decades following its enactment. The study ends in 1912 with the findings of a second Royal Commission that evaluated …