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Animal welfare

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = AMS

Found in 451 Collections and/or Records:

Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Humane Slaughtering of Animals, 1910

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Identifier: Coll-1618/2/5/4/8
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A letter from the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals along with a draft Bill to provide for the more humane slaughter of animals to be used for human food, 11th March 1910.

Dates: 1910

Secret Savagery, 1969

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Identifier: Coll-1618/2/1/3/1/15
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A reprint of an article from the Sunday Pictorial Newspapers (from issues 11th, 18th, and 25th December, 1960), titled "Secret Savagery". The article contains information on experiments which cause pain to living animals.

It was reprinted by the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Vivisection in 1969 and withdrawn from publication 1st May 1979.

This article contains graphic descriptions of animal experimentation.

Dates: 1969

Should Blood Sports be Abolished?, 1937

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Identifier: Coll-1618/2/6/1/2
Scope and Contents A transcript of a debate which took place in London, 19th May, 1937 on the question, "should blood sports be abolished?" The chairman of the debate was Maurice Healy and the speakers were (speaking for and against blood sports) Douglas English, Douglas Gordon, Rose Macaulay, S.P.B. Mais. This debate has been reprinted by the National Council for Animals' Welfare with permission from The Listener and jointly issued by the National Society for the Abolition of Cruel Sports, the...
Dates: 1937

Should we reduce the fear in intensively-reared poultry and, if so, how?, 1994

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Identifier: Coll-1362/4/479
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Located in Roslin Institute Staff Papers 1994. Part 2.

Dates: 1994

Should we stop this research NOW?, 1960

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Identifier: Coll-1618/2/1/3/1/70
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An article, written by Craig McGregor and Bill Hopkins, reprinted by the SSPV with permission of Oldham's Press Ltd "Today", 21st May 1960. The article concerns the welfare of animals being used for medical experiments relating to germ warfare.

Dates: 1960

Slaughter-house Reform; humane methods in killing animals used for food, 1917

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Identifier: Coll-1618/2/5/1/7
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A document showing the results of enquiries as to the progress of the movement in favour of humane methods in killing animals used for food. This was created as part of the Slaughter-house reform and compiled by Mr S.M. Dodington with the Council of Justice to Animals. Published by the Council of Justice to Animals, London.

Dates: 1917

Slaughter-House Reform in the United States and the Opposing Forces, 1912

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Identifier: Coll-1618/2/5/2/11
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An information booklet, titled "Slaughter-House Reform in the United States and the Opposing Forces, the packing interests, the defenders of the Hebrew method".

This was prepared and published by the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, for the Humane Societies of the United States.

The document asks that all animals should be rendered 'unconscious by some humane device of every food animal before the drawing of blood.'

Dates: 1912

Slaughter of Animal (Scotland) Bill, 1927

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Identifier: Coll-1618/2/5/4/5
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A Slaughter of Animals (Scotland) Bill (as amended by the standing committee of Scottish Bills), ordered by The House of Commons to be printed 26 July 1927.

Dates: 1927

Slaughter of Animals, A Bill, 1923

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Identifier: Coll-1618/2/5/4/4
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A copy of the Slaughtering of Animals Bill, to regulate the methods for the slaughtering of animals in Great Britain, ordered by The House of Commons, to be printed 16 February 1923.

Dates: 1923