This bill would prohibit the cruel confinement of egg-laying hens in battery cages, typically the size of a standard iPad, where a hen is unable to spread its wings.
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Tag: Farm Animals
All animals deserve care. Even animals bred for meat & dairy production deserve to be treated humanely and with respect during their time alive. Regardless of your personal choices when it comes to consuming animal-based products, we can all agree that abuse of any animal is unacceptable. MVFA fights to ensure that our farm animals aren’t treated as just mundane grocery store products.
Three New Maryland Laws to Protect Animals Take Effect October 1st
On October 1st, three new laws to go into effect to raise welfare standards for animals in Maryland. They focus on areas of cruelty such as animal sexual exploitation and abuse,
Continue readingMaryland Passes The Nation’s Strongest Law to Combat the Overuse of Antibiotics in Industrial Farming
In Sunday’s Washington Post, supporters of Maryland’s Keep Antibiotics Effect Act explain, “New estimates suggest superbug infections are now the third-leading cause of death in the United States, behind heart
Continue readingMaryland General Assembly Legislative Session Begins January 9, 2019
Maryland Votes for Animals welcomes the newest members elected to the 2019 Maryland General Assembly. There are sixty new members in this class: seventeen in the Senate and forty-three in the
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Maryland Votes for Animals Releases Scorecard
Maryland’s legislators demonstrated a commitment to animal welfare by passing several landmark pieces of legislation to protect companion animals, farm animals, and selected species of wildlife in Maryland. There were
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