S1 Ep2: The Beginning of Animal Welfare Laws

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This episode traces the earliest animal welfare laws, starting with a 1635 Irish law banning cruel practices like attaching ploughs to horse tails and pulling wool from live sheep, then highlights later English and American measures that criminalised animal cruelty. It also covers Lord Erskine's 1809 proposal arguing that cruelty harms both animals and human compassion. Animal Rights Tour is written by Sean Butler, hosted by Carly McCann, and fact-checked by Paulina Siemieniec. This podcast is produced by the Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law, an academic centre of competence dedicated to the study of fundamental rights for non-human animals. Learn more about the Centre at animalrightslaw.org.

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