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Press releases

Stop Funding Beagle Tests, Says Coalition to NIH Leaders

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Animal Wellness Action Offers $2,500 Reward in Spencer County Animal-Cruelty Case

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U.S. Senate Rejects Resolution to Halt Unprecedented, Unworkable, Billion-Dollar Kill Plan of North American Owls

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Beagle Breeding Factory Farm to Surrender Breeding License, Eight-Month Reprieve for Ridglan Farms Assures More Suffering for Dogs

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U.S. Senate Should Pass Resolution to Disapprove Unprecedented, Unworkable, Billion-Dollar Kill Plan of North American owls

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Investigation Exposes ‘Texoma Corridor’ as Hub of Cockfighting and Corruption

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First Circuit Upholds Massachusetts Question 3, Rejecting Industry Challenge to Humane Hog Confinement Standards

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Animal Wellness Action Praises Maine Prosecutors’ and Sheriffs’ Associations for Supporting FIGHT Act to Crack Down on Animal Fighting

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Animal Wellness Action Mourns the Passing of Dr. Jane Goodall

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Animal Wellness Groups Applaud Suspension by State Veterinary Body of Ridglan Farms’ Lead Veterinarian for Running an Inhumane and Poorly Operated Beagle Breeding Facility

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Animal Wellness Action and SHARK Applaud Kendall County Sheriff’s Office for Major Cockfighting Bust in Illinois

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Animal Wellness Action to Host Exclusive Screening and Discussion of Chasing Roo

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Press Statements

‘Cyanide Bomb’ Ban on BLM Lands Must Have Broader Reach, Wildlife Advocates say

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YouTube Deletes Gov. Stitt Pro-Cockfighting Video for ‘Violating Community Guidelines’

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Mink Farms Pose Serious, Ongoing Threats to Public Health and Economy, As Indicated By Review of Zoonotic Disease Outbreaks in U.S. and Europe 

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Animal Wellness Action Notes that Alabama’s Massive Illegal Cockfighting Industry Can Decimate Poultry Industry in the South and Spread HPAI Throughout the Western Hemisphere

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Animal Welfare Groups Applaud San Jacinto County Sheriffs’ Deputies for 19 Arrests at ‘Large-scale Cockfighting Arena’

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Animal Welfare, Racing Groups Join Katherine Heigl in Letter Demanding President Biden Halt Slaughter of American Equines

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Animal Wellness Action Issues Statement About Pentagon Official and Other Individuals Charged with Participating in Dog Fighting Ring

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Animal Wellness Action and Wayne Pacelle Mourn Dianne Feinstein

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Animal Wellness Groups Encouraged by HISA Report, Note Gaps in Key Risk Factors, Including Breeding

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Animal Wellness Action Applauds Federal Prosecutors for Dismantling a Dogfighting Ring that Stretched from Mississippi to Indiana

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Animal Wellness Action Applauds Calvert County State’s Attorney’s Office for District Court Filing against Alleged Cockfighter

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Animal Wellness Action Applauds Jefferson Parish Authorities for Arrest of Alleged Cockfighter

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