Oct. 23 (UPI) -- The House unanimously passed a bill Wednesday that makes animal cruelty a federal felony, closing loopholes in a 2010 law that cracked down on the interstate sale of videos of the crime.
The updated Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act would explicitly make it a federal crime for "any person to intentionally engage in animal crushing if the animals or animal crushing is in, substantially affects, or uses a means of facility of, interstate or foreign commerce," a fact sheet accompanying the bill said.