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 ACE Act would establish a dedicated division at the U.S. Department of Justice to increase the investigation, enforcement, and prosecution of felony animal cruelty crimes.
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 Don’t Feed the Bears Act is federal legislation to prohibit the baiting of bears on national forests and other public lands. This unsporting and dangerous practice involves luring bears with piles of human food waste and shooting them while they feed — often from tree stands or blinds nearby.
The FISCAL Act would bring more choice to the National School Lunch Program by making available to all kids a plant-based milk option that is nutritionally equivalent to cow’s milk. As it does with cow’s milk, USDA would reimburse school districts for purchases of the non-dairy offering.
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 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.
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 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.