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Handing Out Awards from Hollywood to Capitol Hill
It has been a week of celebration for The HSUS and HSLF,
with a pair of events that honor individuals making a difference. On Saturday, I
attended the 23rd
Annual Genesis Awards in Beverly Hills, which recognizes members of the
media and the entertainment industry for their coverage of animal protection
issues. “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Bolt,” “The Simpsons,” “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” and
ABC’s “20/20” and “World News with Charles Gibson” were among the top winners.
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400 Dogs in Wire Cages
My friend Joe Trippi asked me to be a guest contributor on his blog today, and I posted this piece about our work to combat irresponsible puppy mills. I wanted to share it with you here as well, and ask you to get involved.
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Knowing the Score in Congress
Just before the November elections, the Humane Society
Legislative Fund released
a special preview of the 2008 Humane Scorecard. The final copy of
the publication is now available, and it charts the progress that we made for
animal protection during the 110th Congress, on issues ranging from
animal fighting to puppy mills to pet food safety. You can download a copy
and read it here.
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A Day of Rest—for People and Animals
Much has changed in some Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states since Colonial times, but one thing has remained the same for centuries: It has been unlawful to hunt animals on Sundays.
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California Dreamin’
Animal advocates know that last November’s overwhelming passage of Proposition 2, the Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act, was a watershed moment for the cause and a marker for our progress. It not only creates a new law in California banning the cruel confinement of veal calves, breeding pigs, and egg-laying hens in tiny crates and cages on industrial factory farms, but also is galvanizing efforts in other states to achieve similar results.
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No Good Reason to Shoot Doves
A new campaigner is making the rounds in Iowa today, telling
lawmakers there’s no good reason to open a
dove hunting season. His name is “Dave the Dove,” and he’s the star of a
one-and-a-half-minute animated video, which you can watch below.
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A Great Tragedy for Great Apes
The HSUS released the results of its latest undercover
investigation yesterday, and ABC’s
Nightline broke the story of what it’s like behind closed doors at one of
the nation’s largest primate labs. A brave HSUS investigator spent nine months
at the New Iberia Research Center outside of Lafayette, La., which confines
more than 300 chimpanzees and about 6,000 monkeys for research.
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More Horsepower to Get Over the Finish Line
I attended a hearing this morning in the House Subcommittee
on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands on H.R. 1018, the Restoring
Our American Mustangs (ROAM) Act. This bill, introduced by Natural
Resources Committee Chairman Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.) and Subcommittee Chairman
Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.), would save wild and free-roaming horses and burros
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Investing in the Animals’ Future, and Our Own
With the current economic downturn and competing national
priorities for federal spending, it’s a tough time to request money for animal
protection. But we’ve seen time and time again that the animals’ fate is
intertwined with our own, and that addressing animal welfare policies helps to
safeguard all of us.
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Moving the Ball Forward for Primates, Polar Bears
The federal government took two major steps today—one congressional and one regulatory—to protect wild animals from cruelty and abuse. It’s an example of how both the legislative and executive branches of government have a meaningful role to play when it comes to animal welfare and conservation.
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Talk Back: Primates, Palin, Fur Sellers, and Pet Dealers
Today I’d like to post a selection of comments that have come into the blog. Even before Travis the pet chimp critically mauled a Connecticut woman this week, I’d written about the need for Congress to pass the Captive Primate Safety Act, and many of you responded:
