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IDA believes that zoos lead to the premature deaths of elephants [citation needed] and that "urban zoos simply don't have enough space for these magnificent, intelligent animals". [26] IDA's campaign against elephants in zoos is also supported by animal rights group PETA. [27] IDA publishes an annual list of the "10 worst zoos for elephants ...
A pod of orcas moving through the inland waters of Alaska. The Orca Welfare and Safety Act is a bill passed in the U.S. state of California in 2016. The bill phases out the holding of killer whales in captivity and establishes standards for treatment of all remaining captive orcas in zoos.
Since they are sometimes less regulated, roadside zoos are often subject to accusations of neglect [44] and cruelty. [ 45 ] In June 2014 the Animal Legal Defense Fund filed a lawsuit against the Iowa-based roadside Cricket Hollow Zoo for violating the Endangered Species Act by failing to provide proper care for its animals. [ 46 ]
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Zoos and Animal Rights (1993) Stephen St. Chad Bostock (2 March 1940 – 5 February 2023) was an English philosopher, zoologist and animal rights writer. He was known for his research on animal ethics in relation to zoos and his 1993 book Zoos and Animal Rights .
The Case for Animal Rights is a 1983 book by the American philosopher Tom Regan, in which the author argues that at least some kinds of non-human animals have moral rights because they are the "subjects-of-a-life", and that these rights adhere to them whether or not they are recognized. [1]
Some studies have suggested that individuals who are cruel to animals are more likely to be violent to humans. According to The New York Times: . The FBI has found that a history of cruelty to animals is one of the traits that regularly appear in its computer records of serial rapists and murderers, and the standard diagnostic and treatment manual for psychiatric and emotional disorders lists ...
Against Descartes, the British philosopher John Locke (1632–1704) commented, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693), that animals did have feelings, and that unnecessary cruelty toward them was morally wrong, but that the right not to be harmed adhered either to the animal's owner, or to the human being who was being damaged by being ...