Kangaroo-killing industry continues to promote unsafe, unsanitary bushmeat trade, even as kangaroo meat exports are down 86% and skin prices are down 98%. WASHINGTON, D.C. — A new investigation from the Center for a Humane Economy has found that Australia’s commercial kangaroo meat industry has repeatedly exported meat that failed the country’s own food safety testing, both … Read more
Business of Animal Welfare
The Center for a Humane Economy applaud the ruling and call on DOJ and USDA to abandon their assault on state laws to stop torture of farm animals WASHINGTON – Animal Wellness Action and the Center for a Humane Economy today applauded a federal court decision dismissing the U.S. Department of Justice’s misguided and poorly reasoned … Read more
Even as deadly and dangerous bird flu outbreak occurs at mink farm, federal lawmakers persist with effort to restore massive subsidy to U.S. mink industry to try to keep the industry alive WASHINGTON, D.C. — Animal Wellness Action and the Center for a Humane Economy today called on federal and Utah animal- and public-health authorities to … Read more
U.S. Reps. Langworthy and Pocan take their campaign against cruelty nationwide as the March to Abolish Animal Testing nears the gates of Marshall BioResources WASHINGTON, D.C. — Animal Wellness Action and the Center for a Humane Economy today applauded the introduction of the Companion Animal Protection Against Cruel Testing (COMPACT) Act, H.R. 10522, by U.S. Reps. … Read more
Five years after passage of the FDA Modernization Act 2.0, FDA updating its regulations to remove Depression-era animal testing mandate WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Center for a Humane Economy and Animal Wellness Action today applauds the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for issuing a new rule to strip out archaic language requiring animal testing that contradicted the plain … Read more
Press Release Five Kentucky men indicted in federal crackdown for possessing animals for fighting, five years after Animal Wellness Action detailed this criminal conduct in a long-running investigation LOUISVILLE — Calling the federal indictments “a watershed moment in the enforcement of federal animal-fighting laws,” three animal-welfare organizations today applauded federal charges against five Kentucky men … Read more
Press Release Campaign spanning California, Idaho, Oregon and Washington urges public to reject federal plan that authorizes lethal removal of hundreds of thousands of native owls WASHINGTON — The Center for a Humane Economy today launched its “Hoot, Don’t Shoot” campaign, a public-awareness effort featuring 17 billboards across Oregon, Washington, California, and Idaho demanding the federal government … Read more
The Center led the negotiations with Ridglan Farms to release the beagles from the facility Madison, Wis. — The Center for a Humane Economy celebrated the relinquishment of the last set of dogs from Ridglan Farms, signaling the impending closure of what was until recently the second-largest beagle supplier in the nation. The company has … Read more
Historic move by one of the seven federally funded primate research centers could stir NIH to expand this kind of shift in research and animal care BEAVERTON, Ore.— Animal Wellness Action and the Center for a Humane Economy today applauded a unanimous vote by the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) Board of Directors calling … Read more
Likely enactment of this federal bill signals a new era in developing cruelty-free medicines WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Center for a Humane Economy and Animal Wellness Action today celebrated passage of the FDA Modernization Act (FDAMA) 3.0, H.R. 2821, by the U.S. House of Representatives. Led by Reps. Buddy Carter, R-Ga., Nanette Barragán, D-Calif., Diana Harshbarger, … Read more