by Marty Irby American horse racing remains steeped in controversy because of deaths on the track, recurring scandals involving doping of horses, and questions about the enforcement authority for the recently enacted Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act (HISA). It’s an especially vulnerable time for horse racing, with the surge in sports betting threatening to leave … Read more
Oregon’s second city, Eugene, is home of the University of Oregon, storied track and field athletes, and Lane County District Attorney Patty Perlow. The first woman elected to the top prosecutor’s post in Eugene, Perlow has held almost every position a lawyer can have in serving as a career prosecutor. She began as a deputy … Read more
Think about the horrors animals endure from human conduct at its worst. Then cherry-pick the worst features of the most severe forms of animal exploitation in America. You might, then, come up with the compound cruelties of mink farming. Add in the human and wildlife health risks associated with it and you have a crisis … Read more
Groups charge that the bill gives comfort to known criminals in the state Oklahoma City – Animal Wellness Action, the Animal Wellness Foundation, the Center for a Humane Economy, and other anti-cruelty organizations condemned a bill to weaken penalties for certain cockfighting crimes and to decriminalize others. The bill, H.B. 3283 is authored by Rep. … Read more
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 of sows in … Read more
Changes to Further Mission to Better the Treatment of Animals in Business (Washington, D.C.) – Today, the Center for a Humane Economy announced new positions at the national organization. The organization welcomes Marty Irby as senior vice president of public policy and communications; Jennifer McCausland as senior vice president of corporate policy; Karen Duarte as … Read more
San Francisco, CA. — Animal Wellness Action (AWA), and the Center for a Humane Economy (CHE), and affiliates applauded a U.S. District Court for doing away with a last-minute Trump administration rule removing wolves from the Endangered Species Act and restoring protections for the species across most of the lower 48 states. AWA, CHE, the … Read more
Congress Can Reduce Pointless Animal Testing by Allowing Innovative Safety and Efficacy Non-Animal Methods for Assessing Drug Safety It wasn’t your typical highway crash. Surely, there was a dazed and injured driver after his speeding truck flipped on a four-lane highway. But the truck had a very large group of passengers in the rear. Nearly … Read more
Legislation comes after hundreds of mink farms experience SARS-CoV-2 Outbreaks (Washington, D.C.) – Today, in voting to approve the America COMPETES Act, the U.S. House of Representatives included a provision to ban mink farming throughout the United States, signaling disapproval of an industry that harms and kills animals for their pelts, exports them to China … Read more
SARS-CoV-2 is, by and large, a virus that affects two species: humans (Homo sapiens) and American mink (Neovison vison). Public health authorities tracking the progression of the COVID-19 virus in humans confirm about 375 million cases, but the best guess is about 10 percent of 7.8 billion people in the world have been infected. That … Read more