Senior Director of Research and Investigations for the Humane Society of the United States, Mary Beth Sweetland, talks with Vermont Edition about how the organization investigates reports of animal cruelty.
VPR’s Jane Lindholm talks with Joanne Bourbeau of the Humane Society of the United States about the trend of animal cruelty investigations in Vermont in the last few months, and the laws that protect animals from abuse and neglect.
Humane society agents in Vermont are calling for stricter legislation
regulating large-scale breeders, a day after the Vermont State Police
rescued dozens of malnourished dogs from a home in Bakersfield.
Earlier: Humane Societies Take Lead On Animal Abuse
VPR’s Jane Lindholm talks with Joanne Bourbeau from the Humane Society and Steven Fesmire from Green Mountain College about the issue of animal cruelty.
We discuss animal cruelty from legal and philosophical perspectives, and then we talk to to Brian Lindner, team leader of the Waterbury Backcountry Rescue Team.