Uncategorized / Feb 17, 2015
Politicians Crying Wolf
With fragmented populations numbering just 5,000 or so wolves in the lower 48 states—and so many of the survivors having lost family members as a consequence of traps and guns—these iconic canids face more threats to their survival than ever.
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+ Read MoreUncategorized / Feb 04, 2015
All Aboard: Pets on Trains is Just the Ticket
Cassie was moving from New York City to Spring Lake, North Carolina, and she was devastated by the idea of giving up her five-year-old cat, Boots, who had been her beloved companion since he was a kitten. She was traveling to her new home by Amtrak, which still doesn’t allow pets, and Cassie couldn’t afford to fly Boots separately on an airplane.
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+ Read MoreAnimals in Research, Equines, Farm Animals, Pets & Cruelty, Wildlife, Federal Legislation / Jan 22, 2015
Did Your Members of Congress Make the Grade?
There’s a new Congress in town, but it includes many veteran members who are back at work on the Hill, too. We want you to know how those members performed on important animal protection issues in the last session, so you can either encourage them to keep up the good work, or let them know you want them to do better for animals this time around.
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+ Read MoreAnimals in Research, Equines, Farm Animals, Pets & Cruelty, Wildlife, Federal Legislation, In the News / Jan 21, 2015
The 113th Congress in Review for Animals
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+ Read MoreAnimals in Research / Dec 29, 2014
Audit Shows Lax Lab Enforcement
The HSUS and HSLF are at the forefront of legislative reforms concerning animal welfare, but it’s not enough to just pass laws—we must work diligently to ensure they are enforced and that there are consequences for those who don’t follow the rules. For animals in research, enforcement is unfortunately lacking and some laboratories are getting a free pass from even meeting the most basic standards of care.
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+ Read MoreAnimals in Research, Equines, Farm Animals, Federal Legislation, In the News / Dec 23, 2014
Highlights for Animals From the 113th Congress
The 113th Congress, spanning January 2013 to December 2014, may be remembered for its relative lack of productivity and growing polarization. In terms of general lawmaking, it appears this Congress enacted fewer laws, by a wide margin, than any other since at least 1947, the date to which the House clerk’s records go back.
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+ Read MorePets & Cruelty, Wildlife, Ballot Measures, Federal Legislation, State Legislation / Dec 15, 2014
Top 14 in ’14
As the year winds down to a close, I’m pleased to report that 136 new animal protection laws have been enacted this year at the state and local levels—the largest number of any year in the past decade. That continues the surge in animal protection policymaking by state legislatures, and in total, it makes more than 1,000 new policies in the states since 2005, across a broad range of subjects bearing upon the lives of pets, wildlife, animals in research and testing, and farm animals.
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+ Read MoreEquines, Wildlife, Federal Legislation / Dec 10, 2014
Horse Slaughter, Wildlife Trafficking, Other Issues at Stake in Spending Bill
Congressional appropriators unveiled a $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill last night, to continue funding the federal government for fiscal year 2015 and avoid a shutdown when the current budget expires tomorrow.
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+ Read MoreEquines, In the News / Dec 09, 2014
Victory for U.S. Horses: European Commission Suspends Horsemeat Imports From Mexico
The European Commission has suspended the import of horsemeat from Mexico to the European Union due to food safety concerns, and it’s a decision that has huge implications for the slaughter of American horses for human consumption.
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+ Read MoreWildlife, Federal Legislation / Dec 05, 2014
Defense Bill Takes Aim at Wildlife Trafficking
As poaching of animals rages on in Africa, threatening the very existence of some of our planet’s most iconic species, we in the United States must do still more to tackle the issue of wildlife trafficking both at home and abroad.
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+ Read MoreAnimals in Research, In the News / Nov 21, 2014
The Secret Life of Class B Dealers
In honor of the 60th anniversary of The Humane Society of the United States, LIFE Magazine has revisited the classic Stan Wayman photo-essay, “Concentration Camps for Dogs.” The eight-page article and series of shocking photos, originally published in February 1966, built on a five-year HSUS investigation of dog dealing that brought to light the mistreatment of pets stolen and sold to medical research.
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+ Read MoreFederal Legislation, In the News / Nov 13, 2014
Pentagon is on Active Duty for Animals
The Department of Defense recently announced that it will halt the use of live animals in a variety of medical training programs, beginning January 1. As the Boston Globe reported yesterday, “The military has been instructed to instead use substitutes such as a realistic human dummy developed by a research team from Boston.
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