The publicly traded company can continue with simulcasting to maintain a revenue stream while it pauses and probes why so many horses are dying at its track Louisville, KY — Today, declaring that the “show must not go on with so many of athletes dying on the field of play,” Animal Wellness Action and the … Read more
Government and Contract Labs Clamor for Mass Use of Primates Even After FDA Modernization Act Clears the Path for Alternative Test Methods In what seemed a coordinated two-step, the National Academies of Science recently issued an alarmist report about animal testing and the decline in the supply of nonhuman primates,followed by contract breeding labs and … Read more
Animal-welfare group files notices of intent to sue, demands Adidas get out of the ugly business of sourcing kangaroo skins for its soccer cleats Los Angeles, CA. — The Center for a Humane Economy (the Center) announced results of a statewide investigation revealing that retailers in California continue to sell soccer cleats from Adidas despite … Read more
Addition of new Director of Social Media will further mission to better the treatment of animals. Washington, D.C. – Animal Wellness Action and the Center for a Humane Economy announce the hiring of Ryan Luterman-Sevel as Director of Social Media. Animal Wellness Action focuses on passing federal legislation to better protect animals. The Center for a Humane Economy urges corporations to … Read more
Suspended from Churchill Downs and the Kentucky Derby, Baffert Being Allowed to Run at Pimlico Highlights Precisely Why HISA Rules Must Be Applied Nationwide. Washington, D.C. — Animal Wellness Action today expressed sadness and dissatisfaction with the death of Havnameltdown and the injury of jockey Luis Saez at the Chick Lang Stakes at Pimlico on Saturday. The … Read more
Bipartisan group of lawmakers, led by House Foreign Affairs Chairman,introduces Bear Poaching Elimination Act Survey the world in search of the worst localized horrors meted out against animals — the animal sacrifices of the Gadhimai Festival in Nepal every five years, the fish-in-a-barrel shooting of captive lions in South Africa, the water-borne butchering of pilot … Read more
Washington, D.C. — Today, Animal Wellness Action, the Animal Wellness Foundation, Center for a Humane Economy, SPCA International, Protect Our Wildlife-Vermont, and other organizations lauded House Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Mike McCaul, R-Texas, and Reps. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Penn., and Annie Kuster, D-N.H. for introducing legislation to protect the world’s eight species of … Read more
No excuses for delay as U.S. Supreme Court rules Prop 12 is proper exercise of state authority Washington, D.C. — With the U.S. Supreme Court rejecting the overreaching arguments of factory-farming interests in NPPC v. Ross last week, Animal Wellness Action and the Center for a Humane Economy wrote to California’s Food and Agriculture Secretary … Read more
Press Release Law enforcement executed a search warrant yesterday and are pursuing individuals involved in the biggest cockfighting event in recent memory in Delaware Washington, D.C. – Today, Showing Animals Respect and Kindness (SHARK) and Animal Wellness Action called on Delaware law enforcement to follow through with an investigation into illegal cockfighting after SHARK droned … Read more
Justices Determine that Key State Anti-Confinement LawsDo Not Violate U.S. Constitution In what can only be considered a monumental victory for the right of Americans to establish more humane standards for farm animals, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision upholding California’s Proposition 12, a 2018 voter-approved ballot measure that restricts the sale of pork, … Read more