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Activists in Black, Indigenous and Latinx communities are condemning the State of California’s plan to spend half a million dollars on a public relations campaign designed to convince tribal leaders and people of color that bulldozing the Ballona Wetlands will help them.
The California Assembly is debating a new bill (AB-2764) that would ban new factory farms and new slaughterhouses A new bill (AB-2764) would place a moratorium on the construction and expansion of factory farms and slaughterhouses in California. The proposed law would also put a halt to the growth of CAFOs, Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations.
Animal rights organizations have raised concerns about a series of recent US transplant experiments involving pig organs. In the fall of 2021, surgeons from New York University’s Langone Health connected a genetically modified pig kidney to the blood vessels of a brain-dead patient for 54 hours.
Utah’s controversial Animal Enterprise Bill 476, which would have destroyed many animal protections, is dead after protests. Animal welfare advocates are proclaiming victory after the stunning defeat of a bill that was being fast-tracked through Utah’s state legislature. Critics said the bill would have severely jeopardized any advances in animal protection that have been achieved in the state.
The National Institutes of Health has been sued for using taxpayer money in foreign animal labs without animal care committees Two animal protection organizations, White Coat Waste Project (WCW) and Advancing Law for Animals (ALfA) have joined forces to file a new lawsuit against the United States Department of Health and Human Services and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Cafeterias in New York City’s public schools will now implement Vegan Fridays when most of the food will be vegan It’s official. From now on, the Friday menus at New York City public school cafeterias will be almost totally vegan.
Judie Mancuso is Bringing Vegan Meals to California Schools If something happens in California, you know it’s going to have an impact around the country, right? If we want to bring vegan meals to schools across the US, best to do it first in California.
Pro-Animal-Cruelty Bill Aims to Undo Farmed Animal Protections! URGENT! ACT NOW! Animal lovers in America, we need you to take action NOW! PLEASE Contact your 2 U.S. Senators and your member of Congress immediately and say: VOTE NO on the EATS ACT!
The Hippos Who Made Legal History For the first time in American history, a U.S. judge has recognized non-human animals as legal persons. Federal Judge Karen Litkovitz has given the status of interested persons to a population of Colombian hippos.
AL GORE IS DIRECTLY ASKED TO SIGN THE PLANT BASED TREATY! Breaking: UnChained News was on the scene, with our correspondent Jill Carnegie, as renowned “environmentalist” and former Vice President Al Gore was directly asked to sign the Plant Based Treaty, which calls for a global shift to a plant-based food system to fight climate change and avoid an environmental apocalypse!