Russ Mead: President and Chairperson, Board of Directors — Animal rights attorney and advocate, Visiting Professor, Lewis and Clark University Law School's Center
for Animal Law Studies.
This data will allow us to assess the type of crimes committed, species harmed, sentencing orders, and other factors which can then be used
for animal law training and cruelty prevention programs.
In 2008, ALDF launched the Center
for Animal Law Studies (CALS) at Lewis and Clark Law School.
Oregon Court of Appeals Grants Petition to Permanently Remove Cats from their Neglectful Owner in Linn County Hoarding Case, Sets Vital Precedent
for Animal Law
Russ Mead, Esq. is Vice-President and General Counsel
for Animal Law Coalition.
Jeff was instrumental in establishing a Responsible Pet Ownership Course
for animal law offenders in Tallahassee and currently serves on Tallahassee's Animal Crimes Task Force.
Another major achievement for the SALDF of the University of Chicago Law School this past year was successfully petitioning the law school administration
for an animal law course.
Not exact matches
GFI pursues many different avenues
for creating change
for animals: They work to build the capacity of the movement, to influence industry, to build alliances, and to influence policy and
law.
It is inaccurate in that the «
law» you quote only applies to Halal slaughter in the process of killing
animals for food.
Richard Dawkins merely states in unvarnished form doctrines that other scientific metaphysicians take
for granted: In the beginning were the particles and the impersonal
laws of physics; life evolved by a mindless, non-teleological process in which God played no part; and human beings are just another
animal species.
In the «Dispensation of
Law,»
animal sacrifice was a temporal requirement
for the remission of sins until the coming of Christ Whose «Ultimate Sacrifice» is «Sufficient.»
Theism explains everything we observe, argues Swinburne, including «the fact that there is a universe at all, that scientific
laws operate within it, that it contains conscious
animals and humans with very complex intricately organized bodies, that we have abundant opportunities
for developing ourselves and the world, as well as the more particular data that humans report miracles and have religious experiences.»
A
law of «seeking
for its proper good» belongs to everything God has made, including the order of
animal life before there was Man.
Joshua, the «
law» you speak of that has been done away with is the sacrificial system of killing
animals as an atonement
for our sins.
The
Law from the Old Testament was fulfilled when Christ came, from that time forward we have the Gospel of Christ, thus you read of no
animal sacrifices in the New Testament,
for example, just to give you an idea.
Larry Arnhart, in particular, seems to have blurred this fundamental distinction,
for he quotes Aquinas («Conservatives, Darwin & Design: An Exchange,» FT, November 2000) as saying that «natural [emphasis added] is that which nature has taught all
animals,» when Thomas actually said that «those things are said to belong to the natural
law [lex naturalis] which nature has taught to all
animals.»
What God is looking
for is repentence and a turning to him rather than a turning away from him.God instituted the
animal sacrifices to show just how bad sin was so we would be sorry that we greived him.
For us to be made right there has to be a choice to turn from sin and follow him and out of that decision there should be a desire to walk in his ways.Under the old
law part of that obedience was to make offerings however it was by faith in God that made the person righteous and not the blood of
animals.
1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty
for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty
for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules
for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death
for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure
for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death
for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death
for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death
for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse
for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible
for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the
laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast
for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death
for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed
for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide
for your family, you are an infidel)
The purposes of the
Law were brought to an end by the coming of our Life giver, who offered himself in place of the sacrifices in the
Law, and was led like a lamb to the slaughter in place of the lamb of propitiation... He gave his blood
for all mankind, so that the blood of
animals should not be required of us.
Certainly we are victims in one way or another of what are styled economic
laws, say of supply and demand; surely we are in one aspect
animals who seek
for and require
animal fulfillment; without a doubt we are sexual creatures.
Their entitlement is biblical: religious
laws regulated the kind and amount of work
animals could be expected to do and mandated how and when they were to be fed and cared
for; they legislated the rights of
animals.
The Dutch Party
for the
Animals proposed closing a loophole in the Dutch law that allows Jews and Muslims to kill animals that have not been anesthetized
Animals proposed closing a loophole in the Dutch
law that allows Jews and Muslims to kill
animals that have not been anesthetized
animals that have not been anesthetized first.
While the British Veterinary Association has called
for a ban on non-stun
animal slaughter, the practise is endorsed by the Halal Food Authority - a body which promotes adherence to Islamic
law in food production.
People keep thinking their beloved gun rights (in the way they interpret the Cont * itution) impact society the same way today as they did when people were doing a lot more hunting
for food, defending themselves from
animals, defending themselves in places where
law had not yet been established.
The
law requires that
animals offered
for sacrifice be without blemish.
For instance, a fellow who says there is no order in nature — nothing like
laws of nature — that's not good common sense, because every living
animal wants to make expectations about the future on the grounds that there are legitimate expectations about it.
madtown, The evolutionary process that effect His will is not interventionary in its process, it follows the
law of nature, God is not Human, we are only part of Him, our wisdom is infinitesimaly small, The reason is beyond us, just like History, it is only after thousands or millions of years that we understood why it happened,
for example, Why the dynasours got extinct, millions of years ago, to pave the way
for smaller
animals and ultimately humans, Thats why to apply the present human logic on history is illogically simplistic.
Jesus said in Matthew that all the old
laws still apply, including those gory instructions
for animal sacrifice.
You do realize that Silverman and AA was told
for years by christians that they should be killed in the streets and suffer eternally and at best, be considered as less - than -
animals by the US governement and its
laws?
Mendel's first two
laws,
for instance, are infringed by the
law of mutation, which is valid in all
animals and plants.
Questions of natural
law become purely notional and abstract if they are taken only to apply to the human reproduction of children, and not to the factory production of
animals for our consumption.
Even the point about what is best
for other creatures, which may seem very modern, is not without foundation in Hebrew Scriptures in such passages as the
law against taking the hen - bird as well as the eggs from the nest (Deut 22:6), or this saying from Proverbs: «A righteous man has regard
for the life of his beast» (12:10), where, be it noted, the quality that makes a man considerate of his working
animals is not prudence or good business sense but «righteousness,» a point all the more significant when we remember that in the Hebrew Scriptures one of the marks of righteousness is not mere evenhandedness but active favor to the weak and deprived.
Jews were fulfilling the
law the best they could and sacrificed
animals for atonement, as laid out in Deuteronomy, to lessen the blow of sin.
Since these prohibitions are found in the ritual
law and are apparently equal in severity with prohibitions against drinking the blood of an
animal or having intercourse with a menstruating woman, or having an ox which gores one's neighbor, their pertinence
for theological ethics is generally disputed.
The 1985 Congregation
for the Doctrine of the Faith Instruction on Respect
for Human Life states, «By virtue of its substantial union with a spiritual soul, the human body can not be... evaluated in the same way as the body of
animals... The natural moral
law expresses and lays down the purposes, rights and duties which are based upon the bodily and spiritual nature of the human person.»
(III) Social
laws which include
laws for the honest administration of justice, justice
for the stranger, the widows and orphans,
for the debtor, and even
for kindness to the
animals of enemies.
Animals Australia says
laws now allow battery hens to be packed into cages where they can not stretch their wings; mother pigs can be caged barely able to move
for months on end; and chickens raised
for meat have been bred to grow at three times their natural rate, causing health problems.
New
laws making it illegal to take pictures or film agricultural
animals came into force in the US states of Utah and Iowa, lobbied
for by an industry attempting to keep secret what happens on factory farms.
The
law was repealed and replaced with Directive 2003 / 74 / EC in 2003 to include certain conditions
for oestradiol 17ß, pertaining to other non-growth uses on farm
animals.
Send a quick message to the Egyptian Minister
for Agriculture (via the Egyptian Ambassador in Australia), urging the Egyptian government to pass and enforce
laws protecting
animals from cruelty.
While in Jordan,
Animals Australia assisted with the drafting of
animal protection
laws for submission to the Jordanian Minister of Agriculture.
The Department of Agriculture is duty bound to stop the export of live
animals if federal export
laws are not upheld, or if travel arrangements are inadequate
for animal health and welfare.
Politicians around the country have received the message loud and clear that Australians simply won't stand
for law - breaking or cruelty to
animals.
And, of course, the positives
for animals are obvious as they would no longer be subjected to long sea journeys, only to face fully conscious slaughter in countries with no effective
laws in place to protect them from cruelty.
After his release, he lobbied
for stronger
animal protection
laws and became the NFL's 2010 Comeback Player of the Year.
In response to these pressures, the number of wild
animal species is dropping, but the Fish and Wildlife Service's annual budget
for killing and poisoning rises inversely in magnificent adherence to Parkinson's
Law.
There is controversy over this decret, but
for the moment, only
animal proteins
for main meal sticks as the
law in French school cantines.
At 11 a.m., state Sen. Catharine Young and Assemblyman Matthew Titone join
law enforcement officials and animal rights advocates to support Mitchell's Law, to establish harsher penalties for harming or killing a police dog or police horse, outside Senate Chamber, 3rd Floor, state Capitol, Alba
law enforcement officials and
animal rights advocates to support Mitchell's
Law, to establish harsher penalties for harming or killing a police dog or police horse, outside Senate Chamber, 3rd Floor, state Capitol, Alba
Law, to establish harsher penalties
for harming or killing a police dog or police horse, outside Senate Chamber, 3rd Floor, state Capitol, Albany.
It asks
for a change in
law to protect
animal welfare by ensuring that only those individuals who hold the relevant qualifications and are on the RCVS Register of Veterinary Nurses may call themselves «veterinary nurse».
The campaign is reported to have over two million supporters worldwide and the WSPA believes that securing such a commitment at the UN would create the required pressure
for governments to put in place firm
laws and enforcement
for animal welfare.