National Legislation Introduced to Allow Citizen Suits to Crack Down on Staged Animal Fights
Lawmakers also seek to choke off transport of adult roosters through U.S. mail
November 17, 2022
Author: Wayne Pacelle
The Supreme Court Takes Up Prop 12 — and the Future of Factory Farming
Four years ago, 12,051,139 Californians cast ballots on Proposition 12, a measure formulated to improve the living conditions of some species of farm animals. In a landslide vote.
October 5, 2022
While Heartwarming and Important, Beagle Rescue Will Result in 4,000 Other Beagles Sacrificed in Experiments Unless It’s Paired with FDA Modernization Act
It is just and right that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), in response to a PETA investigation, ordered the release of more than 4,000 beagles from Envigo, a contract-breeding facility in Virginia supplying dogs
September 6, 2022
Pork Industry Thumbs Its Nose at American Consumers and Corporations in Asking Supreme Court to Nullify Measures Promoting Humane Treatment
Center, Animal Wellness Action, and Agriculture Veterinarians Submit Briefs Eviscerating Pork Industry Claims Give Big Pork its due. It has chutzpah. The National Pork Producers Council and its agribusiness allies have lost every anti-gestation crate
August 18, 2022
With Joe Exotic and Other Menagerie Owners Out of Business or in Legal Trouble, It’s Time to Enact Safeguards for Captive Big Cats
U.S. House set to vote on Big Cat Public Safety Act, and you can help us win the vote It’s been well more than two years since the release of the salacious Netflix series “Tiger
July 25, 2022
Denmark Acted with Proper Urgency After Mutated Virus Spilled from Mink to Humans
A Danish legal team issued a report last week strongly criticizing Denmark’s Social Democrats and their allies after the Prime Minister and her cabinet ordered the mass killing of mink in that country in the
July 7, 2022
Biden Administration’s Legal Attack on Farm Animal Welfare
In the latest but perhaps most appalling subversion of animal welfare since assuming control of the executive branch, the Biden Administration has targeted the nation’s most important farm animal welfare law. In an amicus brief
June 25, 2022
Animal Cruelty is the Reddest Flag of All for Mass Murderers
Policy solutions should factor in animal cruelty as an antecedent to acts of extreme violence The recent mass shootings in Buffalo, N.Y., and Uvalde, Texas, not only claimed nearly three dozen lives, they have left
May 31, 2022
U.S. Senate Urges Nixing of House Provision to Ban Dangerous and Inhumane Mink Farms
See How Your U.S. Senators Voted on Mink Farming The U.S. House and the U.S. Senate are seeing mink farming through different lenses, with the Senate looking at the miserable, dangerous fur factory farming sector
May 5, 2022
Cockfighting Murder and Mayhem, Home Grown in the U.S.A.
The scale of the violence and crime is startling to fathom. In Mexico, gang leaders got inside an arena in March, sealed off exit routes, and shot and killed 20 people attending a cockfighting in
April 12, 2022