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Founded in 1866, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is the oldest animal protection organization in the United States. In recent year the ASPCA has made a decidedly animal rights turn, taking on meat eating, hunting, and other issues previously dominated by animal rights groups. It has a web site at ASPCA.org.
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As a nonprofit, the ASPCA is required to file a Form 990 with the Internal Revenue Service detailing its income and expenditures. This site has copies of the group's Form 990 for the following years,
Articles about the ASPCA on this site:
Whereas ASPCA would apparently prefer to judge people based on their "inclinations."
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