Requiring Humane Treatment of Animals and Birds: Hearing...on S. 1447

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Página 1 - ... any wild animal or bird to be transported to the United States, or any Territory or district thereof, under inhumane or unhealthful conditions or in violation of such requirements. In any criminal prosecution for violation of this subsection and in any administrative proceeding for the suspension of the issuance of further permits — (1) the condition of any vessel or conveyance, or the enclosures in which wild animals or birds are confined therein, upon its arrival in the United States, or...
Página 38 - District as part-time officers of the Fish and Wild Life Service of the Department of the Interior...
Página 4 - We have been advised by the Bureau of the Budget that it has no objection to the submission of this report from the standpoint of the administration's program.
Página 1 - ... (2) the presence in such vessel or conveyance at such time of a substantial ratio of dead, crippled, diseased, or starving wild animals or birds shall be deemed prima facie evidence of the violation of the provisions of this subsection.
Página 1 - ... Treasury shall prescribe such requirements and issue such permits as he may deem necessary for the transportation of wild animals and birds under humane and healthful conditions, and it shall be unlawful for any person, including any importer, knowingly to cause or permit any wild animal or bird to be transported to the United States, or any Territory or district thereof, under inhumane or unhealthful conditions or in violation of such requirements. In any criminal prosecution for violation of...
Página 22 - ... DEAR SENATOR WHITE: There is pending before your committee abovenamed Senate bill 1447 concerning regulations governing the importation of wild animals and birds. Humane organizations throughout this country are interested in this legislation and especially anxious that it receive an early hearing and favorable action on the part of your committee and on the part of Congress. It is regrettably true that without the intervention of positive law all too often greed overrides all humanitarian considerations....
Página 1 - The Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe such requirements and issue such permits as he may deem necessary for the transportation of wild animals and birds under humane and healthful conditions, and it shall be unlawful for any person, including any importer, knowingly to cause or permit any wild animal or bird to be transported to the United States, or any Territory or district thereof, under inhumane or unhealthful conditions or in violation of such requirements. In any criminal prosecution...
Página 18 - Just 2 months ago I saw a shipment of birds from Argentina whose cages were a mass of ice. Two swans were dead and frozen to the floor of the crate. Others were trying to clean their filthy plumage and vainly pecking at the frozen messes in their food tins.
Página 18 - Nation's largest zoos, I know from personal experience that the above incident is not an isolated case. In addition to my regular duties at the Philadelphia Zoo, I am the official fish and wildlife service inspector of foreign birds and mammals for the port of Philadelphia. It is my duty to inspect shipments of wild birds and mammals that enter this port to detect and prevent the entry of forbidden species, such as the mongoose and flying fox and a number of species of birds. Most animals are shipped...
Página 19 - Pew seamen have any regard for animals and usually resent such a cargo because it entails more work on their part. I once had a gorillalike bosun tell me with fiendish glee of how he watered a huge crate of Rhesus monkeys with a high-pressure fire hose, battering them about the cage and halfdrowning...

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