Advocates must demand President-Elect Biden Come Out of the Gate Strong on Animal Welfare With no major animal welfare initiatives launched by humane organizations on any statewide election ballots for the first time in 30 years, the national election was nonetheless enormously consequential for animals, with Joe Biden appearing to be on his way to … Read more
With Denmark to kill 17 million mink to stop mutating coronavirus outbreak, Animal Wellness Action and other groups to call on government agencies to prevent outbreaks of deadly virus already infecting 100,000 Americans a day in U.S. Washington, D.C. — With COVID-19 cases ricocheting throughout the global mink industry — including in Denmark where its military … Read more
Illegal animal fighting receding on Guam but it has not yet been eliminated Washington, D.C. — The illegal movement of fighting animals from U.S. states to Guam has dramatically declined during the last year, according to shipping records from the Guam Department of Agriculture (GDOA) and recently obtained and reviewed by Animal Wellness Action (AWA) … Read more
The plan, if implemented, would lead to wholesale killing of wolves, especially in Great Lakes states Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin are swing states in presidential politics. They are also wolf states — with the family-oriented gray wolves stalking the boreal forests in search of deer and moose and beavers in their northern reaches. President Trump’s … Read more
See what our scorecard says about Congressional candidates, track our endorsements, and see our write-ups on the President and former Vice President During his Senate confirmation hearing for a vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court 15 years ago, John Roberts famously said that as a jurist he would “call balls and strikes” when it came … Read more
Declining Mink Industry Mainly Serves China, and Continued Operations Are No Longer Worth the Risk to U.S. Communities Washington, D.C. – Today, Animal Wellness Action, the Animal Wellness Foundation, and the Center for a Humane Economy called on Oregon Governor Kate Brown to coordinate with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to coordinate a government … Read more
Washington, D.C. — Today, Animal Wellness Action (AWA), and the Animal Wellness Foundation (AWF) called on the U.S. Senate to take up the Horse Transportation Safety Act, H.R. 1400, and for the U.S. Department of Agriculture to step up its existing regulatory enforcement program after yesterday’s news that 14 horses met a violent and tragic … Read more
It’s time to shut down the least-known and perhaps most appalling form of factory farming Drive into a complex of long, neatly arranged windowless building in Wisconsin or Utah or Idaho and, if you are able to push open a door and peer in, you might have to hold your nose and avert your gaze … Read more
Press Release Declining Mink Industry Mainly Serves China, and Continued Operations Are No Longer Worth the Risk to U.S. Communities Washington, D.C. — Today, Animal Wellness Action, the Animal Wellness Foundation, and the Center for a Humane Economy called on the Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers to coordinate with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to … Read more
Scott Beckstead teaches animal law, served as small-town mayor, and hails from the West Washington, D.C. – The Center for a Humane Economy and Animal Wellness Action today announced the hiring of Scott Beckstead as the organizations’ Director of Campaigns. An attorney, a professor of animal law at Willamette University College of Law, a former … Read more