Recent Government Action for Animal Welfare

Government action to help animals in homes or on farms has progressed as one might expect.  They slowly added more laws to help protect animals.  In recent history, one can look at a chart to show this steady improvement.  Today states are still adding laws to help animals, but there is a more modern effort to helps animals on farms as only recently has it become a noticeable problem.

It's relieving to look at this chart and see that recently, these laws aren't very basic, but they are very specific.  That's because states are increasing the effort to protect animals.  Still this proves to be a slow process as many states have yet to follow along.  As basic laws have been set for animal welfare, the fight today is at the farms.  The questions asked today also involve whether or not scientist are treating animals properly while the experiment on them.  Farming and medicine may seem like two distant activites that take place in a region no where near us.  However, there are so many industrialized farms and major scientific studies involving animals that it's impossible to overlook their use of animals.  These things are in everyone's backyard and we have a moral obligation to make sure that at least at the local level we aren't promoting the abuse of animals - by buying products made with them.