I wrote a week ago how the coronavirus may have started in Wuhan and unevenly radiated to now 77 nations throughout the world. The virus almost certainly infected its first human victim by jumping the species barrier in a “wet market” — open-air shops that are mixing bowls of people, animals, blood and other bodily … Read more
Press Release First Case of COVID-19 in a Pet Transmission Suspected from Infected Person to Dog, but the Animal is Asymptomatic Washington, D.C. — Policy makers should act with restraint and with a common-sense, science-based approach in dealing with cases where pets contract COVID-19, according to veterinarians and other experts from the Animal Wellness Foundation. … Read more
How To Protect Your Pets from Coronavirus recommendations from Animal Wellness Action’s Veterinary Council Member, Sarah LaMere, DVM 1 Protect your pets the same way you protect yourself and other family members. Wash your hands frequently. Use soap and sing the alphabet to make sure you have had contact long enough to kill the germs … Read more
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Animal Wellness Action and the Animal Wellness Foundation sent a letter to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio requesting that he revisit and advance a new policy banning carriage horses in the nation’s largest metropolis. The call follows a horrific incident involving a twelve-year-old mare named Aisha on Saturday in … Read more
Wildlife in American Under Siege from Commercial Trappers and Their Allies in State Government Among all horrors inflicted upon our non-human friends by ordinary citizens, the use of steel-jawed leghold traps and other trapping arguably is one of the worst. In today’s episode of the Animal Wellness podcast, host Joseph Grove moderates a discussion with AWA … Read more
A deconstruction of the false accounting of animal exploitation industries Some historians have long repeated that the trigger for World War I — which, by the armistice, claimed 40 million military and civilian casualties and substantially reconfigured the world map — was the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand. That single event set off a … Read more
Organ harvesting of bears and breeding of tigers for cub petting are matters federal lawmakers should handle without a second thought For charitable purposes only, I wish I had a dollar for every time I told a lawmaker or anyone else about some peculiar form of animal exploitation and they replied, “I had no idea … Read more
Updates on the Corona Virus and The Bear Protection Act The human death toll for the coronavirus has eclipsed 1,600, more than double the number of people who died as a consequence of the SARS virus in 2003. The common thread between these public-health emergencies was China’s wet markets, which have proved to be a … Read more
Federal Law Is Brazenly Defied, Even by Politicians Rightly Pleading for Federal Disaster Relief (Washington, D.C.) — Dozens of citizens of Puerto Rico are writing to Animal Wellness Action (AWA) to alert the organization to illegal cockfighting activities on the island, signaling their own opposition to the bloody spectacles and reminding the nation that cockfighters … Read more
Here we go again. China’s “wet markets” have triggered one more global health epidemic. Wet markets are open-air abattoirs, offering up dozens of species of live animals, including fish in tanks and wildlife in crates, for selection and slaughter by those with an appetite for biodiversity. These pop-up butcheries, with animals jammed in cages and … Read more