A first-termer elected in 2020, Congresswoman Nancy Mace, R-S.C., has come on like a storm on animal welfare. We met just days after her election to the House. She immediately expressed her deep inner passion for the voiceless, and she’s stepped up in a very big way and put herself at the center of many … Read more
AWA, Center for a Humane Economy, and Key Lawmakers Say All Animals Deserve Humane Treatment, Including Animals Raised for Food As the pig industry rails against state and corporate policies aimed at banning the housing of sows in two-foot by seven-foot gestation crates, Congresswomen Veronica Escobar, D-Texas, and Nancy Mace, R-S.C., have proposed a nifty … Read more
Anti-gestation crate policies set to take effect in key states and among dozens of major food retailers in 2022 Washington, D.C – Leading animal welfare groups and farmers applauded the introduction of the Pigs in Gestation Stalls (PIGS) Act, H.R. 7004, by U.S. Reps. Veronica Escobar, D-Texas, and Nancy Mace, R-S.C., to ban the extreme confinement … Read more
But live-shipping records for 2022 shows Department reneged on pledge to abide by federal law and block shipments of fighting birds (Washington, D.C.) Today, Animal Wellness Action (AWA) applauded an emergency action by the Guam Department of Agriculture (GDOA) to halt live poultry imports to Guam because of the spread of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, … Read more
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Animal Wellness Action (AWA), the Washington-based non-profit political advocacy group that worked to pass the U.S. Senator Joseph D. Tydings Memorial Prevent All Soring Tactics (PAST) Act through the U.S. House in 2019, applauded appropriators in Congress for their inclusion of the highest-ever funding levels for enforcement of the Horse Protection … Read more
It hasn’t been a good week for cockfighting syndicates. More than a dozen animal-fighting enthusiasts in Kentucky face charges under federal law, while other members of the larger clan are being confronted with import restrictions on the sale of their fighting birds and the prospect that more enforcement actions may unravel their illegal business operations. … Read more
by Wayne Pacelle Guam Agriculture Department director Chelsa Muna-Brecht has publicly announced that the agency will develop import restrictions on the movement of fighting roosters, though the rigor of those limitations is still an open question given the agency’s close association with the U.S. cockfighting community. The move comes after Animal Wellness Action documented a … Read more
Science Study Documents Continent-Wide Effects of Lead Ammo on Eagles If sport hunters had shot and injured or killed thousands, or even tens of thousands of bald and golden eagles, there’d be an uninterrupted uproar. Rightly so. The perpetrators, if there were any justice, would be prosecuted under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Or, under … Read more
by Josh Marquis The 2011 movie “Contagion” turned out to be prescient. The movie, featuring Matt Damon, posited a world-wide pandemic from a “zoonotic virus” (one that jumps from one species into another) that rapidly turns deadly as one of the film’s main characters says, “The wrong bat met the wrong pig.” And just as … Read more
by Wayne Pacelle Despite the unmistakable verdict of California voters that they want to wrap up the era of extreme confinement of farm animals, the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) and other agribusiness and food-industry players are working to bully the courts and the Congress to undermine Proposition 12 and to allow the indefinite imprisoning … Read more