Ban the slaugher and/or consumption of cats and dogs for any reason in the United States.
Issue: Currently the Federal laws allow exceptions for indigenous people and religion. There is no reason to eat cats and dogs in the United States. We have plenty of other options available in this Country.
Solution:
This needs to be amended to include any and all consumption and/or slaughter of cats and dogs. No exceptions.
Penalty:
for such unnecesary cruelty is up to 10 years in prison and fines of 100,000 to 500.000 per animal.
History:
Signed into law by President Trump
Dog and Cat Meat Trade Prohibition Act of 2018 (H.R. 6720), also called the DCMTPA, is a bipartisan bill outlawing the slaughter and trade of cats and dogs in the United States.
This is part of the Farm Bill of 2018. However, it includes exceptions. Since several States in the US do not have specific laws prohibiting the slaughter and consumption of cats and dogs the Federal law is necessary.
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The Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act (PACT) is a bipartisan initiative that bans the intentional crushing, burning, drowning, suffocating, impalement or other serious harm to “living non-human mammals, birds, reptiles, or amphibians.”
The law also bans “animal crush videos,” meaning any photograph, motion picture film, video or digital recording or electronic image that depicts animal cruelty.
The penalty for violating the law can include a fine, a prison term of up to seven years or both.