{"id":756026,"date":"2019-01-26T08:14:39","date_gmt":"2019-01-26T13:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=756026"},"modified":"2019-01-26T08:14:39","modified_gmt":"2019-01-26T13:14:39","slug":"2018-u-s-animal-protection-laws-state-rankings-the-best-and-worst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=756026","title":{"rendered":"2018 U.S. Animal Protection Laws State Rankings: The Best And Worst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ALDF:<\/strong> &#8216;<em>The Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) has highlighted some strengths and weaknesses in each state jurisdiction\u2019s animal protection laws&#8230; The disparity in various jurisdictions\u2019 animal protection laws demonstrates the unfortunate reality that, in many places, the law significantly under-represents animals\u2019 interests. However, the Rankings Report also presents an opportunity to improve laws everywhere. New animal protection laws continue to be implemented around the country by motivated lawmakers and their constituents\u2014just like you. As new laws are enacted and utilized, states and territories can learn from one another, building upon statutes that have been successful in other jurisdictions to create strong and effective protections for animals&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/aldf.org\/project\/2018-us-state-rankings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EjNGW1KXQD8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALDF: &#8216;The Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) has highlighted some strengths and weaknesses in each state jurisdiction\u2019s animal protection laws&#8230; The disparity in various jurisdictions\u2019 animal protection laws demonstrates the unfortunate reality that, in many places, the law significantly under-represents animals\u2019 interests. However, the Rankings Report also presents an opportunity to improve laws everywhere. New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":756027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,20,23,25],"tags":[27,35],"class_list":["post-756026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-justice","category-rights","category-welfare","tag-cruelty","tag-protection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=756026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":756028,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756026\/revisions\/756028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/756027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=756026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=756026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=756026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}