Sentences with phrase «animals act which»

On the 27th May, the Victorian State Government fulfilled an election promise to hold an inquiry into those sections of the Domestic Animals Act which deal with restricted breed dogs (commonly called breed specific legislation (BSL).

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Service animals, however, are exempt under the federal Fair Housing Act, which prohibits landlords from discriminating based on disability.

The Americans with Disabilities Act calls designated dogs and miniature horses as service animals, which are trained often to assist the deaf or blind.

For instance, in a colorful case involving a city ordinance restricting the practice of animal sacrifice, the Court severely criticized officials for acting out of animosity towards the Santeria religion, which engages in the ritualistic slaughter of pigeons, goats, and turtles (among other animals) and at least sometimes leaves the carcasses along roadsides and in other public places.

It is the human acts that so greatly increase animal suffering against which they protest.

- LIE All atheists believe in evolution, which means they don't believe in morality and think we should all act like animals.

† All atheists believe in evolution, which means they don't believe in morality and think we should all act like animals.

He ultimately argues that there was an original act of violence which ultimately led to the possibility of the destruction of all people in the community, and so to avoid the ever - increasing cycles of violence, the community selected a ritual victim (a human or an animal) that would both carry the guilt of the community as well as the violent tendencies into death, thus satisfying the demands for revenge and the blood lust that comes with it.

The older teleological view measured morality against man's rational - animal nature; in the sexual realm, this meant evaluating sex acts by reference to the common good of marriage, which integrated spousal union and the bearing and rearing of children.

However, this kind of order, in which a society of actual entities acts with a significant degree of unity, is not unique to animals.

And with the cup, so clear a symbol of his blood in that red wine, he saw, as we did, that his life, poured forth, would seal a new commitment, would form upon the altar of God's grace a whole new covenant that would replace the ancient, worn - out slaughter of the animals with one complete and final act, the sacrifice of God's own son to show the world, to show us all the height and depth and majesty, the eternal glory of God's love, which gives itself forever, or until we come, at last, and offer up our own lives in return.

The organism draws its genes from an enormously variegated gene pool; it develops under the influence of them and also under those of a probably pretty heterogeneous environment; and, at any given stage of its life, the way its genes and its previous environment have acted up to that point may have considerable effect on the nature of the environment to which it will next be subjected — if the animal does not like it here it may migrate someplace else, and so on.

The proposed rule is opposed by the American Farm Bureau Federation, National Cattlemen's Beef Association, National Pork Producers Council and the U.S. Poultry & Egg Association, which argue that the Organic Foods Production Act of 1990 doesn't give the USDA the authority to prescribe practices to promote animal welfare.

That gives the state a unique trigger to curb the industry using provisions in its Animal Welfare Act 2002, which provides that a person is guilty of animal cruelty if they transport an animal «in a way that causes, or is likely to cause, it unnecessary harm&rAnimal Welfare Act 2002, which provides that a person is guilty of animal cruelty if they transport an animal «in a way that causes, or is likely to cause, it unnecessary harm&ranimal cruelty if they transport an animal «in a way that causes, or is likely to cause, it unnecessary harm&ranimal «in a way that causes, or is likely to cause, it unnecessary harm».

In addition to the individual acts of abuse which led to criminal charges, The HSUS» investigation also found breeding pigs confined day - and - night in gestation crates, tiny cages that virtually immobilize animals for nearly their entire lives.

Eric Gall, IFOAM EU Policy Manager, added: «It is time for the European Commission to act in line with the precautionary principle to protect the environment and consumers by confirming that plants and animals genetically modified with new technologies will at least be regulated like existing GMOs, and be subject to rigorous risk assessment, traceability and labelling, which are cornerstones of EU environmental and food policies».

(A nice board book to read to get things going is Eric Carle's From Head to Toe which encourages children to act out animal movements.)

Animals don't have those options, but one way they can stay warm is by growing a thick layer of fat, which acts as an insulator to keep them warm.

With this act he made the lactating female breast the icon of this class of animals in which humans were classified.

These included the Performing Animals (Regulation) Act 1925; the Pet Animals Act 1951 (amended 1983); the Animal Boarding Establishments Act 1963; the Riding Establishments Act 1964 and 1970; and the Breeding and Sale of Dogs (Welfare) Act 1999, which amended and extended the provisions of the Breeding of Dogs Act 1973 and the Breeding of Dogs Act 1991.

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The introduction of Secondary Legislation on Pet Vending under the Animal Welfare Act which would prohibit the sale of puppies in pet shops..

Close working with the Pet Advertising Advisory Group (PAAG) to ensure that all online, print and classified advertising contains appropriate welfare messages, and that publishers do not advertise dogs banned under the Dangerous Dogs Act or those from establishments which are not fit for the breeding of animals.

One could imagine a law which said something like «one can not hurt or kill an animal where the sole purpose of doing so is the pleasure taken in the act».

Oliver Letwin, the Cabinet minister given the job of drawing up the manifesto, has agreed to commit to a free vote on 2004's Hunting Act, which outlawed the hunting of foxes and a number of other wild animals with hounds.

Mr Cameron said that he did not favour overturning the controversial Human Embryology Act, which allows the creation of hybrid human and animal embryos.

To develop and enforce tighter regulations, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which enforces the Animal Welfare Act, should establish an ethics committee specifically for biomedical research on chimps.

Lawmakers from both parties are backing a bill — called the AWARE Act — that would expand the scope of the Animal Welfare Act, which governs the humane treatment of laboratory animals.

Shaw and her colleagues briefly captured and banded 20 adult birds, which they trained to carry out six different tests to measure various skills thought to be linked to specific types of animal cognition (defined as the ability to acquire, process, and act on information about the environment).

«I've accepted that the loss of sea ice, not subsistence [hunting of the animal] or the oil and gas industries, is the reason for the threat to the polar bears,» which are already protected by the more stringent Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, Kempthorne said.

The figures do not include most mice, rats, birds, and fish, which make up 98 % of lab animals but are not covered under the 1966 Animal Welfare Act (AWA).»

These animals act as a magnet for settling juvenile scallops which seek out these habitats for shelter, and to mature to adulthood.

The government has recently stated its intention to amend or repeal Section 24 of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986, which allows animal experiments to be carried out in secret.

The animals» surprising genetic history could affect how they are protected under the U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA), which does not have any provisions for protecting genetically mixed populations.

According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), game meats are defined as exotic meats, animals and birds, which are not in the Meat and Poultry Act.

EveryLife is backing the Ultra Act, being considered by the US House of Representatives, which would encourage the FDA to accept other evidence — from animal studies, for instance.

As FWS explained in the proposed rule, which it also made available online, staffers subsequently reviewed the issue in great detail and concluded that the Endangered Species Act «does not allow for captive ‐ held animals to be assigned separate legal status from their wild counterparts on the basis of their captive state.»

The university's final objection, he says, is that releasing the information may violate a 1986 U.K. law known as the Animal Scientific Procedures Act (ASPA), which prohibits disclosure of information in project licenses to third parties.

This notion, which Richard Dawkins of the University of Oxford so memorably called «the selfish gene», seems, paradoxically and wonderfully, to explain not only why animals sometimes act selfishly, but also why they so often seem to cooperate.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) today issued a new rule that expands the range within which the animal may legally roam and lists the Mexican wolf as an endangered subspecies under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).

Experiments performed by coauthor Mireia Uribe - Herranz, PhD, a research associate in Facciabene's lab, demonstrate that when ACT was performed on genetically identical animals obtained from different vendors (Jackson Laboratory or Harlan Laboratories), which carry different microbiota, impact of the therapy was not identical.

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The magnetite - mediated mechanism seems to act as part of a magnetic map - or signpost sense, which could provide the animal with information about its geographic position, whereas the vision - mediated magnetic sense seems to be a pure compass sense that is based on radical - pair processes in the birds» eye (s)[for reviews], [see e.g. 8, 9].

Cilantro also lowered blood pressure by acting as a diuretic — a substance that promotes urine production — in an animal study published in the January 2008 «Journal of Ethnopharmacology,» in which it worked in a similar, though milder, manner to furosemide, a standard diuretic drug.

The TV channel «die neue Zeit TV» actually heralds a new time - a time in which the people and act accordingly again to one Higher Morality FIND - and dies in all walks of life: at work, in raising children, dealing with Nature and animals in society, business and politics, Owls in daily interactions.

If they don't they will be turned into an animal, the species of which they, in an act of small mercy, get to choose.

So, Steinfeld's absence here essentially clears the way for the two actresses who've been sitting on the nomination fence since the start of the awards season, kicking their feet and waiting for Steinfeld to pick a direction in which to follow the blood meridian: Aussie acting vet Jacki Weaver for her merrily odious granny in Animal Kingdom and Mila Kunis for the ecstasy - popping, labia - licking ballerina in Black Swan.

Starting with Animal Crossing: New Leaf, Sylvia has the uchi personality, which means she will act like a tomboy and a big sister to the other villagers.

Five girls, including the two featured in the video, developed the two - minute spot to introduce their community to an amendment to the federal Animal Welfare Act, which excludes several creatures popular in lab research from being defined as animals, thereby denying them the standards of humane care, handling, and treatment animals now receive.

The 2011 Oklahoma legislative session started with a bang as animal advocates closely watched four pieces of senate legislation intended to repeal or seriously amend the Commercial Pet Breeders Act, or SB 1712, a law which passed last year in order to regulate Oklahoma's vast unlicensed puppy mill industry.