Are you a spokesperson for an organization and qualified to speak on its behalf? If so, we need your help.
One of our most powerful advocacy tools is the ability to show legislators that organizations like yours support the bills we are working to pass. It lets them know the legislation is supported by other experts on the various reforms we have proposed and championed.
Endorsing legislation that will improve the lives of animals — and often, of people, too — is easy. Simply click the link for the topic to which you wish to lend your organization’s endorsement. You can read more about the legislation and provide the basic details we will use to demonstrate your endorsement to lawmakers and other officials.
If you have any questions or would like resources to help your advocacy on these issues, please contact Natalie Ahwesh, director of state affairs at nahwesh@animalwellnessaction.org.
The ADD SOY Act would require public schools to offer soy milk to kids participating in the National School Lunch Program and directs the USDA to fully reimburse schools for the cost of the soy milk provided. Not only does the program waste $300 million in taxpayer dollars every year, but it ignores the sacrifices of the cows who produce the milk.
The Kangaroo Protection Act would establish new federal crimes related to commercial activities involving kangaroo products. Specifically, the bill would prohibit importing kangaroos for commercial purposes and using kangaroo products during interstate commerce.
The Pigs in Gestation Stalls (PIGS) Act, would eliminate the use of gestation stalls for pigs in the United States, sparing countless thousands of animals from extreme confinement, pain and disease.
The OFF Act establishes restrictions and requirements for checkoff programs and prohibits boards established to carry out a checkoff program or a USDA order issued under a checkoff program from entering into a contract or agreement to carry out program activities with a party that engages in activities to influence any government policy or action that relates to agriculture.
The Bear Poaching Elimination Act would put an end to the wasteful and inhumane practice of poaching American bears for their gall bladders and their bile. By stopping the trade in their parts, this will help conserve bear populations in North America and throughout the world.
The LEAD Act would stop the use of lead ammunition on federal wildlife refuges. Lead rounds and fragments of them are often consumed by other animals who feast on carrion remnants, poisoning them and the animals who may in turn eat them. Lead toxicity is markedly on the rise.
The MINKS Are Superspreaders Act (H.R. 4310) would ban mink farming in the United States. Mink farms are inhumane, with these wild, solitary, territorial animals kept in small, barren cages that create such stressful and unnatural conditions that the animals exhibit high levels of aggression, including cannibalism.