By Sara Amundson and Kitty Block

The factory farming of mink for fur is cruel and unnecessary, and it certainly shouldn’t be subsidized by the United States government. Or any government.

Last week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service detected H5N1, avian influenza, on a mink fur farm in Salt Lake County, Utah. This marks the first detection of the contagious virus on a fur factory farm in the U.S.

By Sara Amundson and Kitty Block

On a cold winter morning in January 1966, state troopers with a search warrant raided the property of an animal dealer in White Hall, Maryland. There, they found scores of dogs in distress, chained to boxes and barrels, jammed into wire pens and chicken crates, mired in their own waste, with no shelter from the elements or the numbing temperatures.

By Sara Amundson and Kitty Block

This week, the New York Times reported that several hundred of America’s wild horses have been sold to slaughter, in a total betrayal of public trust, congressional direction and the historic legislation that first set the stage for their protection in the mid-twentieth century.

8/6/26 update: The Senate Agriculture Committee did not pass a Farm Bill today, leaving the controversial Save Our Bacon Act out of the legislation as negotiations continue.

By Sara Amundson and Kitty Block

The movement to end the cruel puppy mill pipeline has reached a significant milestone now that Delaware has passed a law prohibiting the sale of dogs and cats in pet shops.

By Sara Amundson and Kitty Block

There’s exciting news regarding our work to get animals out of laboratories and keep them out. The House Appropriations Committee has advanced its Fiscal Year 2027 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Bill on a 34–28 vote, and the report language that accompanies the package promises to advance many of our priorities.

The report’s highlights include:

By Sara Amundson and Kitty Block

For the 190 million animals used in testing and research each year around the world, the shift to non-animal methods cannot come soon enough.

We have always been determined to see a day when elected officials, heads of major government agencies, and the leaders of scientific institutions and corporations came around to the position we have held for a long time:

That we need not rely on animals to gauge the safety of chemical and pesticide products.

By Sara Amundson and Kitty Block

In late April, we released our annual Horrible Hundred report on puppy mills, exposing one hundred puppy mills across the U.S. More than half of these breeders were licensed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the agency tasked with upholding standards of care at many animal facilities, including commercial dog breeders, under the Animal Welfare Act.

With the advancement of the House Appropriations Committee’s FY 2027 Interior-Environment Appropriations bill on a 35-27 vote, we’ve reached a new stage in the war on wildlife.