An Animal Wellness Action Investigation Bright lights. Corporate sponsors. And at the center — animals forced to kill each other. I stood surrounded by 10,000 spectators — almost all men — shouting and gesturing wildly inside a packed coliseum in Manila. On a raised dirt platform six men were preparing for the next fight. On … Read more
Humane advocates, egg and poultry farmers, and law enforcement officials need help in shutting down the animal fighting industry. It’s time for the hunting and environmental communities to step up. by Ted Williams Staged animal fights, in which dogs and roosters are bred and trained to tear each other to shreds for entertainment and gambling, … Read more
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Wayne Pacelle, president of Animal Wellness Action and the Center for a Humane Economy, reacted to the release of a Farm Bill for consideration by the House Committee of Agriculture expected during the week of Feb. 23. Pacelle was a key architect of all the anti-confinement ballot measures approved by voters by double-digit … Read more
New Hampshire Sheriffs’ Association urges congressional delegation to back the FIGHT Act and Animal Cruelty Enforcement Act CONCORD, N.H. — The recent sentencing of a New Hampshire woman convicted for her role in a multistate cockfighting venture reminds federal lawmakers about the prevalence of animal fighting and the need for continuing attention to the problem. New Hampshire’s law … Read more
Landmark reforms, federal agency action, and scientific advances are accelerating the move beyond animal testing, even as entrenched industry interests resist change. In a recent letter I sent, I mused that we may be living through a Berlin Wall moment for animal testing. For nearly a century, a broken health research system has relied on … Read more
Congress banned domestic horse slaughter years ago, yet thousands of American horses are still shipped overseas to be killed. Twenty years ago, in testimony delivered to the members of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee, the late wildcatter and billionaire businessman T. Boone Pickens rightly labeled horse slaughter “America’s dirty little secret.” Most lawmakers … Read more
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Animal Wellness Action applauds the Nash County Sheriff’s Office and Nash County Animal Control for their decisive action that culminated in the removal of more than 650 roosters and the arrest of individuals allegedly involved in a large-scale cockfighting operation in Middlesex, N.C. Deputies responding to a warrant on January 20 discovered … Read more
First-time candidate is a stalwart animal protection advocate, and group urges Democrats in Pennsylvania’s Third Congressional District to vote for him Washington, D.C.— Animal Wellness Action, a national policy and political organization dedicated to strengthening and advancing legal protections for animals, today announced its endorsement of Pablo McConnie-Saad in the Democratic primary for Pennsylvania’s 3rd … Read more
Press Release SAN ANTONIO – Busts of cockfights in progress by the sheriffs of Bexar County and Freestone County are additional indicators of the extensive underground network of these illegal operations. They are also markers of the partnership between law enforcement and leading animal welfare groups intent on shutting down these organized criminal syndicates. Undercover … Read more
Lawmakers, governors, public health agency leaders want to expedite transition to human-relevant testing methods and to halt unethical, ineffective, costly uses of primates Washington, D.C. — The Center for a Humane Economy and Animal Wellness Action welcomed news from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to gauge the feasibility of transitioning the Oregon National Primate … Read more