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CRS Issue Statement on Animal Welfare (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date Jan. 11, 2010
Report Number IS40255
Authors Geoffrey S. Becker, Coordinator, Specialist in Agricultural Policy
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
Summary:

Whether additional measures are needed to protect the health and well-being of animalshas been a subject of debate in Congress. Animal protection activists, on the one hand,have long sought legislation to modify or curtail how nonhuman animals, whetherliving in captivity or in the wild, are used and treated. However, producers have resisted new lawsto regulate animal activities that they deem to be acceptable or even necessary.