Episode 3: When Animals Aren’t
Animal Amicus podcast
Who counts as an animal? How do state laws vary as they tackle this question? How does an animal’s relationship to humans affect the legal protection it has? Nicole Pallotta and David Rosengard tackle these and other questions as they discuss how states define “animal,” the legal implications for animals categorized as wildlife, companion animal, livestock, scientific experiment, or vermin, and the resulting instability.
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Resources
- Animal Legal Defense Fund: Animal Cruelty Charges Dropped Because Fish Are Not “Animals” Under North Carolina Law by Nicole Pallotta
- Animal Legal & Historical Center: North Carolina General Statutes § 14-360
- Hakai Magazine: Fish Feel Pain. Now What? by Ferris Jabr
- Compassion in World Farming: Why Fish Welfare Matters: The Evidence for Fish Sentience
- Animal Legal & Historical Center: New Mexico Statutes Annotated § 30-18-1
- Animal Legal & Historical Center: Utah Code Annotated § 76-9-301
- Animal Legal Defense Fund: Friend or Food? Companion Pigs Challenge Legal Distinctions by Nicole Pallotta
- Sports Illustrated Vault: The Lost Pets that Stray to the Labs by Coles Phinizy
- BARk: The Dog Who Sparked an Animal Rights Movement by JoAnna Lou
- Animal Legal Defense Fund: Animals Used in Research
- Nebraska Law Review: The Animal Welfare Act at Fifty: Problems and Possibilities in Animal Testing Regulation by Courtney G. Lee
- Institute for Laboratory Animal Research: Gaps in US Animal Welfare for Laboratory Animals: Perspectives from an Animal Law Attorney by Pamela Frasch
- Animal Legal & Historical Center: Detailed Discussion of the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act by Cynthia F. Hodges
- Vox: The “Humanewashing” of America’s Meat and Dairy, Explained by Jessica Scott-Reid
- National Library of Medicine: Are They Buying It? United States Consumers’ Changing Attitudes toward More Humanely Raised Meat, Eggs, and Dairy
- Animal Welfare Institute: A Consumer’s Guide to Food Labels and Animal Welfare
- Animal Welfare Institute: Legal Protections for Animals on Farms
- Frontiers: Nonhuman and Nonhuman-Human Communication: Some Issues and Questions
- Science in the News: River Dolphins Have a Surprisingly Large Vocabulary
- The Washington Post: Coyote-killing Contests Face Growing Outrage, State Bans
- Outdoor Life: Coyote Hunting Contests Would Be Banned on Federal Land if Congress Passes the Bill It Introduced This Week
- Animal Legal & Historical Center: Texas Penal Code § 42.092
- Animal Legal Defense Fund: Fighting to Bring Kristen Lindsey to Justice
- American Veterinary Medical Association: AVMA Guidelines for the Euthanasia of Animals
- Public News Service: Lobster and Crab Cruelty in Maine? by Mark Scheerer
- Animal Legal Defense Fund: Switzerland Bans Practice of Boiling Lobsters Alive Without Stunning First by Nicole Pallotta
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