USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services (APHIS)
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Folder information
- Title:
- USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services (APHIS)
- Description:
- This resource contains material related to the Animal Welfare Act and the role of the UDSA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) in enforcing it. It includes news reports from APHIS, as well as newspaper clippings related to animal welfare. There is information about various violations of the Animal Welfare Act as well as information regarding how well APHIS is upholding the provisions of the Act. It also includes promotional material, “Animal Welfare Act: How it Protects Your Dog and Cat.” It also includes information related to possible revisions made to strengthen the Animal Welfare Act. Many of the letters are written by Christine Stevens of the Animal Welfare Institute.
- Topics:
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Animal Protection
- Subjects:
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Animal experimentation
Animal welfare -- Law and legislation
Horses
Livestock
Plant diseases
Veterinarians
- Original Format:
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Archival collection
- Item identifier:
- mc00344_118843_20201002_7550
- Created Date:
- circa to
- Names:
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United States. Department of Agriculture
more info on United States. Department of Agriculture
- Digital Project:
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Animal Turn
Source information
- Repository:
- Special Collections Research Center at NC State University Libraries
- Collection:
- Animal Welfare Institute Records 1930-2003 (MC00344) held by Special Collections Research Center at NC State University Libraries
- Note field:
- Not all materials from the physical collection may have been scanned. Images may have been enhanced for web access.
- Rights:
- For questions regarding copyright or permissions, please refer to our Reproduction, Use, Citation, and Copyright page (http://d.lib.ncsu.edu/collections/about).
- Funding:
- This resource was created with support from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), an independent, nonprofit organization that forges strategies to enhance research, teaching, and learning environments in collaboration with libraries, cultural institutions, and communities of higher learning. CLIR's Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives awards program, which is generously supported by funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, supports the creation of digital representations of unique content of high scholarly significance that will be discoverable and usable as elements of a coherent national collection.