Humane Treatment of Farm Animals: Overview and Issues
[摘要] Animal protection activists in the United States have long sought legislation to modify or curtail some practices considered by U.S. agriculture to be both acceptable and necessary to animal health. Some Members of Congress over the years have offered various bills that would affect animal care on the farm, during transport, or at slaughter. The House and Senate Agriculture Committees from time to time have held hearings on farm animal welfare issues, but their members generally express a preference for voluntary rather than regulatory approaches to humane methods of care. This report briefly provides an overview of the subject.
[发布日期] 2004-11-19 [发布机构] Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.
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[关键词] Agriculture;Protection of farm animals;Animals [时效性]
