{"id":756061,"date":"2019-01-30T09:16:16","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T14:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=756061"},"modified":"2019-01-30T10:04:44","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T15:04:44","slug":"us-legislation-to-make-animal-cruelty-a-federal-felony-but-with-exceptions-hunting-farming-vivisection-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=756061","title":{"rendered":"US(eless) Legislation to Make &#8216;Animal Cruelty&#8217; a Federal Felony, BUT With Exceptions (Hunting, Farming, Vivisection, etc.)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>The bill hopes to amend an act that was passed regarding so-called \u201ccrush\u201d video, clips of extreme cruelty showing people torturing and mutilating animals.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>EWAN PALMER:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;Two Florida lawmakers have reintroduced a bill that would prosecute torturing animals as a felony offense across the U.S. Republican Congressman Vern Buchanan and Democrat Ted Deutch are sponsoring the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act in a bid to close a current gap in legislation. The bill hopes to amend an act that was passed regarding so-called \u201ccrush\u201d videos\u2014 clips of extreme cruelty showing people torturing and mutilating animals, including stepping on them or skinning them alive, which are then shared online.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>In 2010, Congress passed the Animal Crush Video Prohibition Act, which made the creation, sale and distribution of crush videos illegal. However, due to a current loophole, the actual act of animal torture is still legal under federal law&#8230; The legislation does contain amendments for animal suffering that arrives via normal veterinary care, hunting and \u201cconduct necessary to protect life or property from a serious threat caused by an animal&#8221;.&#8217;<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/rare-bipartisan-bill-proposed-make-animal-cruelty-federal-felony-except-case-1309117\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RELATED VIDEO:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LkIPjiVTLIY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EWAN PALMER: &#8216;Two Florida lawmakers have reintroduced a bill that would prosecute torturing animals as a felony offense across the U.S. Republican Congressman Vern Buchanan and Democrat Ted Deutch are sponsoring the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act in a bid to close a current gap in legislation. The bill hopes to amend an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":756062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,20,23,25],"tags":[27,35,37],"class_list":["post-756061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-justice","category-rights","category-welfare","tag-cruelty","tag-protection","tag-speciesism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756061","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=756061"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":756071,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756061\/revisions\/756071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/756062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=756061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=756061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=756061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}