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
In many ways Steve Leriche looks every bit the DA out on the prairie — which as the elected prosecutor of sprawling Jefferson County in the high plains of Central Oregon, he pretty much is. Standing well over six-feet tall, with broad shoulders but a shy smile, he quietly takes care of business as a … Read more
In December 2019, President Trump signed into law the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act (PACT). AWA founder Wayne Pacelle conceived of the law five years ago, and it took that long to enact it, mainly due to the obstructionism of former U.S. Rep. Bob Goodlatte, D-Va., who served as chairman of the House Judiciary … Read more
The staged fighting of animals is the most widely criminalized form of animal cruelty, with the first prohibitions imposed by the states in the first half of the 19th century. Yet it remains as one of the biggest underground enterprises that causes extreme harm to animals — with literally tens of thousands of backyard cockfighting … Read more
The National Law Enforcement Council (NLEC) is a group of current and former local and state prosecutors, attorneys general, and other law enforcement professionals who support fortifying the legal framework against animal cruelty and seeing that all of our animal welfare laws are robustly enforced at all levels of government. The goal of the group is to … Read more
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