Archive for July, 2020
Mississippi passes bill making animal torture an automatic felony; Iowa is now the only outlier in nation
We have good news to share from Mississippi and Iowa, the only two states in the nation without a law on the books that would make acts of animal torture, like burning, drowning and intentional starvation, an automatic felony. Recently, Mississippi’s state legislature passed a . . .
Breaking news: Nation’s top science panel recommends VA should stop most research on dogs
Three years ago, Americans were stunned to learn that puppies and adult dogs were being subjected to gruesome surgeries, induced heart attacks and other invasive procedures, and then being euthanized, as part of taxpayer-funded medical experiments being carried out at the McGuire Medical Center in . . .
Breaking news: U.S. House passes major infrastructure package with key provisions for wildlife corridors, horse transport
The U.S. House has just approved provisions that would make highways safer for wildlife to cross and create safer conditions to transport horses across the country, as part of the Moving Forward Act, a package of reforms designed to restore America’s aging infrastructure. The measures . . .
Breaking news: Colorado becomes seventh U.S. state to ban cages for egg-laying hens
Colorado has just banned cages for egg-laying chickens and will require that eggs produced and sold in the state be cage-free. The bill, which passed both chambers of the state legislature in June, was signed moments ago by Gov. Jared Polis. The new law will . . .
