{"id":58534,"date":"2019-11-29T02:34:50","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T02:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=58534"},"modified":"2019-11-29T02:34:50","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T02:34:50","slug":"animal-cruelty-is-now-a-federal-felony-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2019\/11\/29\/animal-cruelty-is-now-a-federal-felony-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal cruelty is now a federal felony in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a heartwarming news that is being welcomed by animal lovers and animal activists in the US, President Donald Trump just signed a piece of bipartisan legislation officially making animal cruelty a federal felony. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On November 25th, President Trump signed the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act into effect. The bill had already been unanimously approved&nbsp;in the House&nbsp;on October 26th and in the Senate on November 6th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The PACT Act&nbsp;was first introduced&nbsp;by Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-22) and Congressman Vern Buchanan (FL-16) back in January as a means of criminalizing \u201cgruesome\u201d acts of animal cruelty that were not included in the Animal Crush Video Prohibition Act, which Congress passed back in 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That being said, the newly-approved&nbsp;H.R. 724 bill&nbsp;contains exceptions for normal veterinary care, hunting, and other actions that are considered necessary to protecting life or property from a serious threat caused by an animal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more here: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/animal-cruelty-now-officially-a-us-felony\/ (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/animal-cruelty-now-officially-a-us-felony\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/animal-cruelty-now-officially-a-us-felony\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a heartwarming news that is being welcomed by animal lovers and animal activists in the US, President Donald Trump just signed a piece of bipartisan legislation officially making animal cruelty a federal felony. On November 25th, President Trump signed the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act into effect. The bill had already been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}