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Obama Moves to Resume U.S. Horse Slaughter
The Obama Administration today sharply disappointed HSLF and other animal advocates by announcing its plans to allow operations for the first horse slaughter plants to open in the U.S. since 2007. The U.S. Department of Agriculture today granted permission for a horse slaughter plant to open in New Mexico, and says it plans to grant similar requests to plants in Iowa and Missouri as well.
Equines, Pets & Cruelty, Action Alerts, Federal Legislation, In the News /
Horse Slaughter Plants Permitted to Open
The Obama Administration today sharply disappointed HSLF and other animal advocates by informally releasing word of its plans to allow operations for the first horse slaughter plants to open in the U.S. since 2007. The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans today to announce it has granted permission for a horse slaughter plant to open in New Mexico, and it will make similar announcements for plants in Iowa and Missouri on Monday.
Equines, Farm Animals, Pets & Cruelty, Federal Legislation, Food, In the News, State Legislation /
Good News in Congress on King Amendment, Horse Slaughter
The House of Representatives today shot down the $940-billion Farm Bill, by a vote of 195 to 234.
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Not So Fast, Horse Slaughter Crowd
Today, the House Appropriations Committee marked up its agriculture spending bill for Fiscal Year 2014, and it included much good news for animals. Most notably, the committee approved by voice vote an amendment offered by Reps. Jim Moran, D-Va., and Bill Young, R-Fla., to forbid spending by USDA on inspections of horse slaughter plants on American soil. The Senate should follow suit.
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Take Action: Tell Congress to Reject Radical Amendment to the Farm Bill
The Senate will likely conclude its consideration of the Farm Bill next week, and the House is likely to take up its Farm Bill within the next couple weeks, with a number of important animal welfare issues hanging in the balance. As the Bakersfield Californian wrote in an editorial today, lawmakers “should take a long, hard look at an amendment by Rep.
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Take Action to Protect Egg-Laying Hens, State Laws
The Senate will likely conclude its consideration of the Farm Bill next week, and the House is likely to take up its Farm Bill within the next couple weeks, with a number of important animal welfare issues hanging in the balance. As the Bakersfield Californian wrote in an editorial today, lawmakers “should take a long, hard look at an amendment by Rep.
Equines, Pets & Cruelty, Wildlife, Federal Legislation, In the News /
Remembering Sen. Frank Lautenberg, Champion for Animal Protection
The animals lost a true champion in Congress today, and The HSUS and HSLF lost a great friend, with the passing of five-term U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., who was the Senate’s oldest member at 89.
Wildlife, Action Alerts, In the News, State Legislation /
Saving California’s Bobcats
An axiom of wildlife management is that wild animals are for the benefit of the entire public, not for private commercial profit. But there are some forms of commercialization of wildlife that still exist today, and the market is driving the unsustainable killing of creatures with no limits. Bobcats are under such a threat in California, which currently allows the unlimited trapping of bobcats for commercial purposes.
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Recognizing Humane Legislators on Capitol Hill
Yesterday evening the Humane
Society Legislative Fund and The Humane Society of the United States hosted our
annual congressional Humane Awards, where we honored a bipartisan group of
legislators who led the way for animals during the last year.
Pets & Cruelty, Federal Legislation, In the News /
Companion Ticket
You can take your dog or cat on an airplane, and stay with your pet in many hotels. But why can’t a companion animal travel with your family on a passenger train?
Farm Animals, Federal Legislation, In the News, State Legislation /
The Good and the Bad in the Farm Bill
The House Agriculture Committee, late last night, approved its version of the Farm Bill, and with it included an important provision to close a loophole in the federal animal fighting statute and help crack down on people who attend and bring children to dogfights and cockfights. The animal fighting amendment, offered by Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., passed the committee by a bipartisan vote of 28 to 17. It’s based on H.R. 366, sponsored by Reps. Tom Marino, R-Pa., McGovern, John Campbell, R-Calif., and Jim Moran, D-Va.
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A Radical Federal Attack on States’ Rights
The House Agriculture Committee will take up the Farm Bill tomorrow morning, and will consider an amendment offered by Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, that seeks to negate most state and local laws regarding the production or manufacture of agriculture products. It’s a radical federal overreach that would undermine the longstanding Constitutional rights of states to protect the health, safety, and welfare of their citizens and local businesses.
