Legislation for Animals
Indianapolis, Indiana, December 28 11:30pm New Jersey Senator Cory Booker, the first vegan member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, recently announced a new piece of farmed animal welfare legislation, the Industrial Agriculture Accountability Act (IAA). The IAA is a bill created, in part, as a response to what critics have described as the horrific treatment of pigs, chickens, turkeys and cows during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the early months of the pandemic, Covid-ridden slaughterhouses were temporarily shut down, and the USDA provided aid to livestock companies in the mass killing (referred to as “depopulation”) of millions of animals, meaning that taxpayer dollars supported these acts.
The New FDA Modernization Act, eliminating the Food and Drug Administration’s requirement that new drugs be tested on animals, has been now signed into law. Los Angeles, December 26, 2022 2:30pm — After a long-fought campaign by a coalition of animal protection organizations, The FDA Modernization Act 2.0 has now become law, passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate and signed into law by the President of the United States as part of the omnibus spending bill. Supporters are declaring this the most crucial milestone for the anti-vivisection movement ever, as it removes its biggest obstacle: U.S.
The Veterans Affairs’ lab in Louisville, Kentucky has ended its controversial cat experiments after pressure from animal protection organizations. Los Angeles, December 14, 2022 1:15 pm — The anti-vivisection animal protection organization White Coat Waste Project (WCW) has announced that the controversial cat lab at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in Louisville, Kentucky will stop animal experimentation.
Animal agriculture’s challenge to California’s Proposition 12 will be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court in October Los Angeles, September 29th, 2022, 9am – It was way back in 2018 that Californians spoke out clearly against animal cruelty! They voted, overwhelmingly, in favor of California’s Proposition 12, which bans certain intensive confinement methods involving farmed animals.
URGE LOS ANGELES TO SIGN THE PLANT BASED TREATY! LA is on the brink of history! It could become as the first large city in the United States to essentially endorse the Plant Based Treaty! A resolution to that effect has just been introduced to the Los Angeles city council.
The Research Modernization Deal: a strategic plan to replace animal experiments in scientific research with modern methods. We’ve heard it a million times. When animal rights activists protest against animal experiments, the knee-jerk reply of many scientists and politicians is that society needs vivisection in order to cure human diseases.
With recent success in Ecuador, the case for granting legal personhood to some captive animals is advancing all over the world. A huge case comes up May 18th in New York involving Happy, the elephant. Happy, Estrellita, Kaavan, Chucho, and Billy may become names that future law students will have to memorize.
The non-profit White Coat Waste Project has discovered that the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) is funding Russian vivisection labs doing experiments on cats. White Coat Waste Project (WCW) alleges that, as recently as November 2021, the NIH shipped $549,331 via a university to Russia’s state-run Pavlov Institute of Physiology.
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).
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!