Government
In several primate research battlefronts, from escaped monkeys to government waste, the fight to end primate experimentation is gaining momentum across the United States Los Angeles, February 23, 2025 — Across the United States, several battles are raging against the primate research industry — an industry that relies on secrecy, taxpayer money, and the suffering of tens of thousands of monkeys and apes.
Send this letter and tell Elon Musk to slash the farm bill’s subsidies for industrialized animal agriculture in order to achieve massive budget cuts and, simultaneously, Make America Healthy Again as the new administration says it want to do. Washington D.C.
Judie Mancuso’s new animal rights book Because They Need Us reveals the strategies and stories behind decades of animal protection laws Los Angeles, December 15th, 2024 — In the fight for animal rights, few voices are as powerful as Judie Mancuso’s.
The Farm Bill Battle in Congress: Activists face arrest as they expose the environmental, animal welfare and economic costs of subsidizing animal agriculture. Los Angeles, August 22, 2024 — As the United States Congress debates the renewal of the Farm Bill, a significant battle is unfolding over the future of food and agriculture in America.
How one rescued lab cat exposed taxpayer-funded cat torture in the United States Los Angeles, August 22, 2024 — In a remarkable show of resilience and hope, a cat named Delilah has become the symbol of a nationwide campaign against the horrific practice of taxpayer-funded cat torture in laboratories.
A project to build a massive monkey prison in Georgia, where monkeys would be bred for vivisection labs, faces increasingly strong opposition from local residents Los Angeles, March 12th, 2024 — Residents of Bainbridge, Georgia, are expressing outrage over plans to build a massive laboratory monkey-breeding facility in their small city.
Celebrities, including Moby, have endorsed The Plant Based Treaty’s Safe and Just Report launched at a press conference in Dubai during COP28’s Food, Agriculture and Water Day. December 11th, 2023 — Dubai, UAE — The Plant Based Treaty’s Safe and Just Report represents an urgent demand that the world’s governments change their current approach to food systems by moving past what organizers describe as “carbon tunnel vision” which ignores animal agriculture’s substantial role in climate change.
Youth Steering Committee members urge government officials to promote plant-based foods and stop pushing pro meat and dairy policies that threaten their futures by worsening the climate and human health Los Angeles, September 14, 2023 — For a second year, a group of students belonging to the Youth Steering Committee (YSC) have traveled to Washington DC to talk to Senators, House Representatives, and other government officials urging them to stop subsidizing animal agriculture and start allowing more plant-based foods and dairy-free milk into America’s school systems.
PETA pledges one million dollars to save a thousand Cambodian monkeys, that PETA charges were illegally imported, and asks the public to help with signatures Los Angeles, April 8th, 2023 — The fate of 1,000 monkeys, that PETA says were illegally imported into the United States, is now in the hands of the US Government.
Edinburgh has become the first capital city in Europe to endorse the Plant Based Treaty to address the impact of animal agriculture on the global climate crisis Edinburgh, January 18, 2023 — The City of Edinburgh Council, Scotland, UK, has endorsed the Plant Based Treaty, becoming the first major European city to join this campaign to tackle the meat industry’s massive role in the climate emergency.