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|The [[Asia for Animals]]’ Social Media Animal Cruelty Coalition (SMACC) has written a letter to Mark Zuckerberg, urging him to take comprehensive action to prevent and remove animal cruelty content from Facebook and other platforms operated by Meta. The focus of concern is on content depicting primate torture and abuse, particularly videos of macaque monkeys being subjected to extreme and sadistic acts of violence.  
|Campaigners are urging the veterinary sector to support making pet abduction a specific criminal offense. The Pet Theft Reform campaign seeks to change the legal perception that views pets as property and estimates that up to 3,000 dogs are stolen from their owners every year. The campaign has gained over 16,000 signatures on a new online petition after the [[Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill|Kept Animals Bill]] was dropped.  
|<ref>[https://ladyfreethinker.org/letter-to-meta-monkey-torture-content-live-on-facebook/ Letter to meta: monkey torture content live on facebook] Lady Free Thinker</ref>
|<ref>[https://www.vettimes.co.uk/news/vet-sector-urged-to-get-behind-new-pet-abduction-law-appeal/ Vet sector urged to get behind new pet abduction law appeal</ref>
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Campaigners are urging the veterinary sector to support making pet abduction a specific criminal offense. The Pet Theft Reform campaign seeks to change the legal perception that views pets as property and estimates that up to 3,000 dogs are stolen from their owners every year. The campaign has gained over 16,000 signatures on a new online petition after the Kept Animals Bill was dropped. [1]
  1. [https://www.vettimes.co.uk/news/vet-sector-urged-to-get-behind-new-pet-abduction-law-appeal/ Vet sector urged to get behind new pet abduction law appeal