Our Reports and Fact Sheets
The knowledge and skills of Animal Wellness Action's team of investigators, scientists, veterinarians, policy and international experts make our reports a must-read.
Animal Cruelty Enforcement
FACT SHEET: Enhancing Enforcement of Federal Anti-Cruelty Laws
FACT SHEET: The Correlation Between Animal Abuse and Socially Dangerous Human Behavior
Animal Fighting is the Pits
REPORT: The Texoma Cockfighting Corridor
An investigative report on the widespread illegal conduct and associated crimes in the criminal network spanning the remote reaches between Tulsa and Dallas.
REPORT: Commonwealth Cruelty in Kentucky
An investigative report on Kentucky’s Global Trafficking of Fighting Animals
REPORT: The North Carolina Cockfighting Industry
An investigative report on North Carolina’s involvement in the cockfighting industry.
REPORT: Cockfighting in Oklahoma
An investigative report on Oklahoma cockfighting traffickers and the Oklahoma Gamefowl Commission.
REPORT: Hawaii: the Hub for Pacific Rim Cockfighting Trade
An investigative report of Guam Shipping Records Revealing More Shippers from Hawaii to Guam Than Any Other State
REPORT: Cockfighting in Arkansas
An investigative report on the history and current state of illegal cockfighting in Arkansas.
REPORT: Cockfighting: Playing Chicken and Gambling with Potentially Pandemic Avian Influenza and Virulent Newcastle Disease
An investigative report on how cockfighting is contributing to a potentially pandemic Avian Influenza and Newcastle Disease.
FACT SHEET: Fighting Inhumane Gambling and High-Risk Trafficking (FIGHT) Act Combats Crime and Contagion
FACT SHEET: Animal Fighting and the U.S. Territories
Banning Greyhound Racing
FACT SHEET: Greyhound Protection Act
Cage Free Future
REPORT: Rebranded EATS Act Eliminates Nation’s Most Important Farm Animal Welfare Laws
A scientific report on how the measure would clear the path for China to expand its dominance in pork production in the American homeland.
FACT SHEET: Save Our Bacon Act: An Assault on American Values
FACT SHEET: Summary of Legal Casework to Overturn Consequential State Farm Animal Welfare Laws
Dunking the Milk Mandate
BRIEF: Looking at Claims Made about Soy and Other Plant Milks
A brief on the health benefits of human consumption of soy, and four of the most common myths surrounding soy consumption and what science has to say about them.
BRIEF: The Benefits of a Plant-Based Diet
A PowerPoint document on how changing to plant-based diets reduce chronic diseases, increase lifespan & decrease climate change.
BRIEF: Let’s Talk Soy: Myths and Facts
A brief looking at the truth behind some fraudulent soy claims.
Kangaroos Are Not Shoes
FACT SHEET: The Kangaroo Protection Act
Misc.
REPORT: Big Cats as Nature’s Check Against Disease
A report on the theoretical, empirical, and experimental evidence supporting predator cleansing of CWD in deer and elk herds by mountain lions and wolves.
Modernize Testing
REPORT: Big Cats as Nature’s Check Against Disease
A report on the theoretical, empirical, and experimental evidence supporting predator cleansing of CWD in deer and elk herds by mountain lions and wolves.
Protecting America's Horses
REPORT: Horse Slaughter in North America: U.S. Live Exports Fade as Foreign Demand Abates
An Investigative report on horses and other equines sent to slaughter in Canada and Mexico.
FACT SHEET: Save America’s Forgotten Equines Act
Protecting Bears
FACT SHEET: Ending the Unsporting, Unsafe, and Reckless Practice of Bear Baiting on Federal Lands
FACT SHEET: Protect Our Bears from the Bear Bile Trade
Rethink Mink
REPORT: Mink Farming and SARS-CoV-2
A report examining the science and the scale of problems associated with mink farns.
FACT SHEET: The MINKS Are Superspreaders Act
FACT SHEET: Mink Fur Farming is in Decline
Saving Wolves
FACT SHEET: The Snowmobiles Aren’t Weapons (SAW) Act
Soaring, Not Suffering
REPORT: Lead Ammunition Imperils Wildlife and Hunting Families
How the use of alternative forms of ammunition will remediate the widespread lead poisoning problem.