One Medicine: Animal Experiments and the Making of Modern Medical Science
Dig: A History Podcast
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The Second Great Awakening
For ages what we would consider clear cases of cruelty to animals were simply common practice and was generally considered entertainment. One of the earliest laws we have, regulating the treatment of animals, comes from Massachusetts that at the time was a colony in 1640. There was also a period of Christian revival in Great Britain and many other Christian countries around the world. Some of this energy was directed into stopping animal cruelty.
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