Archive for March, 2017
This week, lawmakers introduced a swirl of major reforms to help animals, taxpayers
A few years ago, a group of very special citizens trekked from a number of states to Capitol Hill to lobby for a ban on shark finning in U.S. waters. Some of them had a bit of difficulty getting around, parts of their legs missing. . . .
Scores of federal lawmakers say no to keeping horses sore
Today, in a show of legislative horsepower, U.S. Reps. Ted Yoho, R-Fla., and Kurt Schrader, D-Ore., introduced the Prevent All Soring Tactics (PAST) Act, HR 1847, with nearly half the lawmakers in the U.S. House joining them in a quest to close loopholes in the . . .
Ag trade groups bilk farmers out of tens of millions through diversion of check-off dollars
Two pair of ideological opposites introduced bills in the U.S. House and Senate yesterday – Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Cory Booker, D-N.J., in the Senate, and Dave Brat, R-Va., and Dina Titus, D-Nev., in the House — to reform a series of federal government programs . . .
South Korea, Indonesia, and other fronts in the dog meat battle
This week, we celebrated the transport of 55 dogs from South Korea to the United States, rescued just before they were splayed on a butcher’s block and destined for the pot. It’s our seventh major rescue in South Korea, where we help transition the farmers . . .
Animal cruelty masquerading as regulatory reform
As readers of this blog will know and lament, bears and wolves are the latest victims of the anti-regulatory fervor infecting Congress. Last week, in a party-line vote, every Senate Republican voted in favor of a Congressional Review Act resolution rescinding a 2016 U.S. Fish . . .
USDA using poison explosives to kill wildlife and pets in the West
When young Canyon Mansfield and Casey, his three-year-old Lab, headed out together to play in the area behind their home in eastern Idaho, they hardly expected the walk to be their last together. Without notifying a soul, and in violation of their agreement not to . . .
Humane Society International closes another dog meat farm in South Korea (our seventh)
“When I first entered the darkness, the overpowering stench of feces and urine made me retch,” said Adam Parascandola of Humane Society International. “The ammonia burned the back of my throat. We could hear the cacophony of desperate barking but we couldn’t see their faces, . . .
A Senate Republican attack on animals menaces grizzlies, wolves in Alaska
I tossed and turned almost the entire night. It wasn’t a nightmare that roiled me. It was yesterday’s awful spectacle in the U.S. Senate. By a 52 to 47 vote, senators approved, on a party-line vote, their colleague Dan Sullivan’s resolution to rescind a 2016 . . .
Can the humane economy continue to advance in our challenging times?
It’s fitting, it seems, that on the launch day of the paperback version of The Humane Economy: How Innovators and Enlightened Consumers Are Transforming the Lives of Animals in bookstores, Burger King and Tim Horton’s announced new policies concerning the welfare of chickens raised in . . .
An attempted overthrow of our national wildlife refuge system
Let’s be very clear. The resolution advanced by Alaska Senator Dan Sullivan to allow unconscionable methods of hunting grizzly bears and wolves on national wildlife refuges in the state is an attack on the entire national wildlife refuge system. Sen. Sullivan wants to give the . . .
Gulliver’s travails underscore urgency of lead ammo ban
Gulliver’s chances didn’t seem high when a caring person saw him fall from a tree and called animal control. A beautiful bald eagle, Gulliver was the victim of acute lead poisoning. Gulliver couldn’t stand or even hold his head up. His bloodwork showed a lead . . .
Arkansas poised to enact draconian ag-gag measure
The attack on animals – and the people who defend them – isn’t just happening on the federal level. It’s happening in some important states, too. The Arkansas Senate yesterday approved a controversial state “ag-gag” bill that allows employers in Arkansas to sue workers who . . .
