Equines, Farm Animals, Pets & Cruelty, Wildlife, Action Alerts, Federal Legislation, In the News, State Legislation /
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.
Equines, Farm Animals, Pets & Cruelty, Wildlife, Action Alerts, Federal Legislation, In the News, State Legislation /
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.
Farm Animals, Action Alerts, Ballot Measures, Federal Legislation, Food, In the News, State Legislation /
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.
Farm Animals, Pets & Cruelty, Action Alerts, Federal Legislation /
With Farm Bill Looming, Make a Call to Help Hens
As the House and Senate agriculture committees are both scheduled to take up the Farm Bill next week, there is much at stake for animal welfare. The Senate draft of the bill includes a provision to crack down on people who attend and bring children to dogfights and cockfights, based on the Animal Fighting Spectator Prohibition Act.
Equines, Action Alerts, Federal Legislation, In the News /
Horse Slaughter Not a Risk Worth Taking
I’ve pointed out many times on this blog that the horse slaughter industry in the U.S. is cruel and predatory, gathering and killing horses in particularly gruesome ways. It’s a sad fate for so many American horses—iconic companion animals not raised for human consumption but often ending up on foreign dinner plates. The entire horse slaughter pipeline, from auction to transport to the cruel slaughter process, is terrifying and inherently inhumane for horses.
Pets & Cruelty, Federal Legislation, In the News, Podcasts /
Podcast: Bipartisan Support to Crack Down on Animal Fighting
I was a guest this week on SiriusXM’s POTUS channel, to discuss the need for the Animal Fighting Spectator Prohibition Act.
Equines, Action Alerts, Federal Legislation, In the News /
All Eyes on the Kentucky Derby, and Needed Reform
In what other professional sport is it acceptable for 24 athletes to die each week? With millions of Americans watching the Kentucky Derby this weekend, it’s an important time to take stock of the horseracing industry and the critical reforms that are needed to protect the welfare of its equine competitors—because the toll in animal deaths and injuries year after year is far too great and so many of them are preventable.
