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Mobile, Ala. – This week, the University of South Alabama (USA) student organization Animal Rights Alliance received guest speaker and Mobile native Marty Irby at a special event, where Irby spoke about animal protection issues and lobbying for animals in our nation’s capital. Irby is the executive director at Animal Wellness Action and a senior … Read more
The Federal Ban on Cockfighting Is Settled Law, as Congress Winds Up to Strengthen the Law Again WASHINGTON, D.C. — Yesterday, a U.S. District Court dismissed with prejudice a legal maneuver by a former Northern Marianas Islands local politician and executive agency official – a self-described lifelong cockfighter – to invalidate the application of the federal ban … Read more
Washington, DC – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is embracing the discredited and unethical practice of trophy hunting of threatened and endangered species in its latest proposed rulemaking on elephant conservation, according to the Animal Wellness Action (AWA) and the Center for a Humane Economy (CHE). The groups are calling on the agency to bar any … Read more
Lawmakers also seek to choke off transport of adult roosters through U.S. mail
In addition to staging fights in U.S., animal fighters are raising and shipping tens of thousands of fighting animals to other nations throughout the world Washington, D.C. – Noting the barbarism of staged dogfighting and disease threats to poultry posed by cockfighting, Reps. Cindy Axne, D-Iowa, and Don Bacon, R-Neb., introduced legislation to strengthen the … Read more
To understand why Animal Wellness Action is so invested in the passage of FDA Modernization 2.0, one need look no further than Sheldon and Bernie.
This will spar animals needlessly conscripted into an outdated and expensive testing scheme with its origins in the Depression era.
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Press Release Advocacy leaders appalled by ‘wrist-slap,’ call for full state criminal investigation Portland, Oregon — Animal Wellness Action, Center for a Humane Economy, and Animal Wellness Foundation expressed shock and outrage that a fine against Oregon Health Sciences University was only $37,900, calling the small sum “too little, too late,” given the institution’s long and … Read more