Remembering Ted Kennedy: A Lion for Animals, As Well

[Mari333]

His compassion extended far beyond his own family’s pets. He was a stalwart ally over the years on a wide range of legislation to protect companion animals, farm animals, animals in research, and wildlife. Measures he cosponsored and voted for included those to crack down on dogfighting and cockfighting, ban horse slaughter, curb abuses at puppy mills, end the slaughter of “downed” animals (those too sick or injured to stand and walk), limit federal subsidies for very large factory farms, condemn Canada’s commercial seal hunt, halt poaching of bears for their viscera, block oil and gas development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and restrict taxpayer funding for use of steel-jaw leghold traps on national wildlife refuges. Sen. Kennedy also consistently joined calls, beginning in 2001, for increased funding to ensure viable oversight and enforcement of the Animal Welfare Act, Humane Methods of Slaughter Act, and other key laws.












http://hsus.typepad.com/wayne/2009/08/ted-kennedy.html

[Triana]

1. Was Just Gonna Post This - Thanks! n/t

[DebbieCDC]

2. A humanitarian and a friend of animals

There is no better epitaph, IMHO.

[Raine]

3. THANK YOU for posting this

Teddy had a heart for so many, I miss him so much already.

[Mari333]

4. I know he is with his brothers now

and yet the end of an era , it is for many..

[CrawlingChaos]

5. Did not know this - thanks for posting

An excellent example of someone caring about people AND animals (I get so weary of animal welfare activism being criticized because "humans are suffering too" - as though you have to choose one or the other!)

IMO few things say as much about a person's character as how they treat animals.

[4_TN_TITANS]

6. Too bad that only now

word gets around about the massive accomplishments of Kennedy for all life forms. More and more I'm getting the feeling that we lost someone we took way too much for granted.