Press Release Today Animal Wellness Action, the Center for a Humane Economy, and the Animal Wellness Foundation called on the Bureau of Land Management to suspend its wild horse and burro gather operations in the wake of a BLM announcement of an unexplained outbreak of infectious disease that has claimed the lives of at least … Read more
Guam Department of Agriculture Has Taken Also No Disciplinary Action Against Its Own Law Enforcement Officer Who Allegedly Staged Illegal Cockfights Washington, D.C. — Animal Wellness Action (AWA) has strongly criticized the Guam Department of Agriculture (GDOA) for issuing “hollow and totally adequate” animal import standards that will allow illegal shipments of fighting birds onto the … Read more
In 2019 and 2020, wildfires ignited large swaths of the Australian countryside. The conflagrations were devastating to humans, with significant loss of life and home. But the horrors for animals were even worse: a broad range of unique and iconic animals suffered, including dingoes, emus, platypuses, wombats, possums, long-footed potoroos, silver-headed antechinus, regent honeyeaters, and … Read more
U.S. regulatory failures are a reminder that federal and state agencies are underplaying predictable risk of mink farms spawning new variants and throwing U.S. into crisis We don’t know much about SARS-CoV-2 variants that have emerged in China or Russia, chiefly because of state control by their authoritarian governments. But we do know a good bit … Read more
Animal Groups Call on Kentucky State Veterinarian and Board of Veterinary Examiners to Investigate Incident After News of Expired Medication Administered to Laoban Louisville, Ky. – Today, Animal Wellness Action, the Washington, D.C.-based non-profit that led the charge to enact the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act signed into law in December 2020, in a letter today called on … Read more
Press Release Milton, Florida – A public outcry over the intentional shooting of a defenseless donkey has sparked national outrage from animal advocates. The shooter identified by a witness as Phillip Hayes, was contracted by the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Department to capture an escaped donkey on the loose this week. Hayes, a member of the … Read more
The scale of the violence and crime is startling to fathom. In Mexico, gang leaders got inside an arena in March, sealed off exit routes, and shot and killed 20 people attending a cockfighting in Michoacán state. Three of the dead were Americans, including a mother of four from Illinois and, according to the Michoacán … Read more
Penalties Come in Response to Animal Groups’ Letter Friday Calling for Action Against Notorious Trainer Towson, Maryland – Today, the Maryland Racing Commission responded to calls from the Center for a Humane Economy, Animal Wellness Action, and the Animal Wellness Foundation by suspending embattled horse trainer Bob Baffert in Maryland. The move bars Baffert from running horses in … Read more
Advocates Want Maryland and Preakness Stakes to Follow Lead of Kentucky, California, and New York BETHESDA, MD – Today, the Maryland-based Center for a Humane Economy, Animal Wellness Action, and the Animal Wellness Foundation, in a letter, called on the Maryland Racing Commission to issue a formal suspension of trainer Bob Baffert. Baffert was recently suspended for 90 … Read more
Please tell your legislators to support the FDA Modernization Act here. Congress has three fundamental responsibilities: pass new legislation, fund the implementation and enforcement of the enacted laws, and establish taxes to pay for them. And that’s the sequence: authorize programs and then implement them. For instance, Animal Wellness Action (AWA) worked to ban animal … Read more