Monday, February 4, 2019

The PACT Act hopes to ban animal cruelty at the federal level

Even though it has been a federal crime to create and distribute animal torture videos for nearly a decade, the actual act of animal torture has not been banned at the federal level. Now. Rep. Ted Deutch (D-Fla.) and Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-Fla.) are trying to change that with the re-introduction of their Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act (PACT Act). If passed, the PACT Act would prohibit "intentional acts of crushing, burning, drowning, suffocating, impaling or otherwise subjecting...

from Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building https://inhabitat.com/the-pact-act-hopes-to-ban-animal-cruelty-at-the-federal-level
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