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Senator Robert Byrd Dies Before Horse Cruelty Act Becomes Law

Written by Vegetarian Star on Monday, June 28th, 2010 in Animal Issues, Politicians.

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WASHINGTON - MAY 15: Committee Chairman Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) delivers his opening remarks before the Senate Appropriations Committee's full committee markup of the FY2008 emergency supplemental bill for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan May 15, 2008 in Washington, DC. The House of Representatives is considering the war funding authorization bill at the same time. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd has died at the age of 92, after a brief hospitalization.

According to PETA’s blog, the Democratic congressman was a voice for animals as well as people. He helped convince the Senate Appropriations Committee to put $5 million toward enforcing the Humane Slaughter Act, and just a year earlier, had given a speech about the horrors he saw in factory farms.

“Our inhumane treatment of livestock is becoming widespread and more and more barbaric. Six-hundred-pound hogs—they were pigs at one time—raised in 2-foot-wide metal cages called gestation crates, in which the poor beasts are unable to turn around or lie down in natural positions, and this way they live for months at a time. … These creatures feel; they know pain. They suffer pain just as we humans suffer pain.”

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Ted Kennedy Loved His Dogs Sunny And Splash

Written by Vegetarian Star on Thursday, August 27th, 2009 in Animal Issues, Politicians.

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The nation is mourning the death of what has been called the last of the great Kennedy “dynasty,” as Senator Ted Kennedy lost his battle with brain cancer Tuesday evening.

Senator Kennedy was an animal lover who owned two dogs, Splash and Sunny, who were at his side on Capitol Hill like a personal assistant or intern would be.

He was influential in several legislative measures to improve animal treatment, including ending commercial whaling, limiting antibiotic use in farm animals and increasing the penalty for dog and rooster fighting from a misdemeanor to a felony just to name a few.

We’ve not only lost a great politician and a Kennedy, we’ve lost an advocate and champion for those who can’t speak for themselves.

Good work, senator.

You will be missed.

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