Did You Know THat The FBI Now Considers Animal Abuse A Class A felony?

[Me.]

"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]

1. Good - nt

[Hekate]

2. Good. Animal abusers often graduate to humans

[mucifer]

3. of course that excludes factory farms they get huge tax breaks and subsidies.

[Phoenix61]

6. Does it say that farms are excluded? nt

[radical noodle]

23. I imagine so

Also probably rodeos, zoos, and horse racing.

[Phoenix61]

26. So that's "no I haven't read it." nt

[Deuxcents]

4. I'm always learning something here..this is good news

[MarineCombatEngineer]

5. From what I understand,

most serial killers started out by abusing, torturing and killing animals and then graduated to humans.

I'm very pleased to see this.

[Me.]

7. THey ARe Innocent Beings

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]

10. working in slaughterhouses also leads to increased violence

https://journals.scholarsportal.info/details/10860266/v22i0002/158_saicr.xml

[MarineCombatEngineer]

15. Thanks for the link.

I quickly scrolled through it and will read it in more depth when I'm have time.

[Phoenix61]

16. Do you have the link to the article or just the listing. nt

[NullTuples]

19. "Iowa Pushes to Let 14-Year-Olds Work in Meatpacking Plants"

Welcome to the GOP's idea of utopia....

[Tetrachloride]

17. I personally heard 2 verbal situations against my dogs.

[RockRaven]

8. As with most laws/rules, it sounds reasonable and one hopes that the implementation

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.]

12. It's A Start

Never thought I would see anything like this in this country

[brer cat]

9. I'm glad to learn this.

Animals deserve kindness not abuse.

[Me.]

14. Thank You Brer

[StarryNite]

11. Unless it's the USDA Wildlife Services

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)

https://www.predatordefense.org/USDA.htm#:~:text=Overview%20%26%20Kill%20Data,agriculture%20and%20the%20hunting%20lobby.

[Me.]

13. LIke I Said Above, It's A Start

and many people are fighting for animal rights. I never thought I'd read anthing like that..

[ancianita]

20. Terrible.

We ruin their habitats then kill them as they're forced into human areas.

[Duppers]

25. Horrible 🤬

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]

18. IT SHOULD BE A FELONY

ABSOLUTELY

[soldierant]

21. No - and I suspect the reason that non of us knew

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.

[Fla Dem]

22. Excellent! And if it's the FBI then it's a federal offense.

[Raine]

24. VERY Good!!! 👍 nt

[burrowowl]

27. K&R

[Me.]

28. Kick For Visibility