Critical insights at the intersection of animals and politics
Press Release Olympians, including Gold Medalists Heather Mitts (soccer) and David Verburg (track and field), urge Nike to stop fueling annual slaughter of 2 million kangaroos California – More than one hundred California stores and online retailers – including Nike, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Puma, and Amazon-owned Zappos – are illegally selling athletic shoes made of … Read more
Press Release Advocacy groups push for House floor amendment to allocate $11 million of the current budget to PZP birth control to humanely manage wild horse and burro populations, Curbing Amount Spent on Roundups and Incarceration Washington, D.C. — Today, the American Wild Horse Campaign, Animal Wellness Action, and the Animal Wellness Foundation applauded the … Read more
Washington D.C. — Today Animal Wellness Action (AWA) and Animal Wellness Foundation (AWF) applauded the U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies (CJS), led by Chairman Jose Serrano, D-N.Y. and Ranking Member Robert Aderholt, R-Ala., for urging the Department of Justice (DOJ) to enhance its work to prosecute federal animal cruelty crimes, … Read more
Press Release grace@americanwildhorsecampaign.org Washington, D.C. — Today, two of the nation’s leading wild horse protection and humane organizations expressed disappointment with the U.S. House Appropriations Committee’s decision this morning to approve Fiscal Year 2021 Interior appropriations legislation giving the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) $102 million for its wild horse and burro program. In a … Read more
Animal Wellness notes that millions of hunters have already switched to copper, steel, and far less toxic metals for ammunition Washington D.C. — Today U.S. Representative Ted Lieu, D-Ca., introduced legislation to phase out the use of lead ammunition on National Wildlife Refuges, putting an end to the needless incidental poisoning of millions of wild animals … Read more
But BLM Gets Millions for Horse and Burro Round-Ups, While USDA Gets Millions for Inhumane Predator Killing In 2017, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) removed from a searchable website the animal welfare inspection records for puppy mills, horse shows (where “soring” is prevalent), laboratories using animals, and circuses and other public exhibitors of animals. … Read more
Federal law bans possessing birds for fighting, and these breeding operators are illegal operators sitting right out in the open Just a couple of weeks ago, federal authorities raided a major cockfight in Georgia, arresting 178 spectators and the organizers at these gladiator-style fight. Officials seized 800 roosters before the inevitable injury and death that … Read more
With COVID-19 Surging Across the Country, No Time to Waste on Revamping Drug Development Regulations There are 536 counties in the U.S. with COVID-19 case densities that are equal to or exceeding New York City’s peak in April. Our national crisis has not only been severe, but enduring. What started as mainly a respiratory virus, … Read more
House Bill Scheduled for Markup Fully Funds PAWS Act, Doubles HPA Funding, and Maintains Horse Slaughter Ban Washington, D.C. — Today, the U.S. House Appropriations Committee released its FY2021 Agriculture Appropriations package scheduled for votes by the Subcommittee on Agriculture Appropriations and the full Appropriations Committee this week. The package includes $3 million in funding … Read more
Many people unfamiliar with the equestrian world are unfamiliar with the practice of horse “soring” — an illegal and unethical practice of some trainers who injure the front feet and legs of certain breeds of horses by chemical or mechanical means to produce a particular “gait” considered pleasing to leaders within a segment of the … Read more