id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8356 Animal ethics - Wikipedia .html text/html 5520 685 58 In 1822, the British Parliament passed the Cruel Treatment of Cattle Act.[14] In 1824, the first animal rights society was founded in England by Richard Martin, Arthur Broome, Lewis Gompertz and William Wilberforce, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which later became the RSPCA.[15] The same year, Gompertz published Moral Inquiries on the Situation of Man and of Brutes, one of the first books advocating for what will be more than a century later known as veganism.[16] In 1835, Britain passed the first Cruelty to Animals Act.[17] In 1866, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was founded by New Yorker Henry Bergh.[18] In 1875, Frances Power Cobbe established the National Anti-Vivisection Society in Britain.[19] In 1892, English social reformer Henry Stephens Salt published Animal Rights: Considered in Relation to Social Progress.[20] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8356.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8356.txt