The former leader of the Save Our Bacon (SOB) Act in the U.S. Senate withdraws support for it For more than a decade, the architects of the Save Our Bacon Act have persistently tried to persuade federal lawmakers and federal judges to overturn state animal-welfare laws approved by voters. The courts turned them back in … Read more
Agriculture Committee head also tried (but failed) to gut the greyhound racing ban. The U.S. Senate can correct outcomes at odds with American values I’m still in southern Wisconsin, where the community is abuzz with excitement about the accord I announced yesterday between the Center for a Humane Economy, Big Dog Ranch Rescue, and Ridglan … Read more
U.S. House debate on the bill, replete with provisions to benefit foreign companies and a relative handful of foreign consumers, is here The American public cares deeply about animal well-being. You wouldn’t know it, though, if you dig into the legislative details of the Farm Bill – better defined as the “Factory Farm Bill” – … Read more
House Agriculture Committee Chairman Glenn Thompson has put an ugly thumbprint on an inhumane farm bill There have always been hardened opponents of the most important social causes in American history – whether the “fire-eaters” who defended slavery in the antebellum South, the men who mocked women’s suffrage just more than a century ago, or … Read more
There is the stink of foreign influence in Congress as some lawmakers seek to boost international factory farm interests by overturning the will of American voters. The National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) has shoveled a load of pig slop to a handful of farm-state lawmakers in Congress in promoting the Save Our Bacon (SOB) Act. … Read more
But the House Agriculture Committee chairman’s crusade in Congress to repeal restrictions on gestation crates may be headed to the U.S. House floor for a showdown Yesterday delivered one more loss for the crowd hellbent on overturning California’s common-sense laws that farm animals should not be kept in cages or crates so small they cannot … Read more
Trump judge dismisses case for lack of standing, in latest setback by government entities and factory farming interests seeking to overturn states’ most consequential farm animal protection laws WASHINGTON, D.C. – Animal Wellness Action and the Center for a Humane Economy celebrated a U.S. District Court for the Central District of California ruling tossing the … Read more
The bill includes a partisan measure to overturn animal welfare laws, while omitting popular reforms to combat animal fighting, dog racing, horse slaughter This year’s Farm Bill — a grab bag of policies related to agriculture, research, and nutrition — would roll back existing legal protections for America’s farmers, farm animals, and consumers, all to … Read more
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Wayne Pacelle, president of Animal Wellness Action and the Center for a Humane Economy, reacted to the release of a Farm Bill for consideration by the House Committee of Agriculture expected during the week of Feb. 23. Pacelle was a key architect of all the anti-confinement ballot measures approved by voters by double-digit … Read more
Our new report dismantles the arguments of the National Pork Producers Council and the China-owned and operated Smithfield Foods to unwind Prop 12 and Question 3 Earlier this month, Ohio became the 11th state to limit the use of gestation crates for breeding sows, restricting an extreme confinement measure that keeps pigs in metal traps … Read more