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Big pork’s new shameless attempt to ‘fix’ Proposition 12

In his dystopian novel Animal Farm, George Orwell uses the pig, Squealer, to show how those in power use language, rhetoric...

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Protecting equines
Legislation making it safer for wildlife to cross highways and mandating reforms for horse transport moves to full House for vote

A key House committee has approved a package of investments in America’s infrastructure, including provisions to make U.S...

Scotland bans fish farmers from shooting seals; law inspired by U.S. reforms for marine mammals

For years, Scotland has allowed fish farmers and other fisheries to shoot seals in order to keep them from eating their fish...

Ending the dog and cat meat trades
Yulin dog meat festival to begin this weekend, defying Chinese declaration that dogs are pets not food

Once again, we are seeing heartbreaking visuals from Yulin, China, in the run-up to the annual dog meat “festival” there this...

Farmed animal welfare
KFC, more Americans want to eat the plant-based ‘Kentucky Fried Miracle’

Last year, when KFC launched a new, plant-based chicken at one of its Atlanta locations, it sold out within five hours, with...

Protecting equines
Triple Crown season begins this Saturday with racing industry under a cloud over horse deaths, trainer indictments

The coronavirus pandemic is not the only problem plaguing the horse racing industry as it prepares for the first of the...

Animal Care Expo takes place online this year; Event to feature more than 30 sessions

Animal Care Expo, our marquee training and exhibition event for animal welfare professionals, has moved online this year...

Horrible Hundred report leads to closures of problem puppy mills in states, spurs new laws in states, localities

For the last eight years, we have published the annual Horrible Hundred report listing 100 problem puppy mills in the United...

Dutch fur farms have killed 575,000 mink, mostly pups, following coronavirus outbreak

Update (6/12/2020): Dutch authorities have confirmed they have killed 575,000 mink, including 480,000 pups, during the cull...

Banning trophy hunting
Trump administration opens Alaska's national preserves to cruel practices like trophy-hunting denning bears and wolves and their cubs; proposes disbanding protections on Kenai Wildlife Refuge

The Trump administration has given trophy hunters the green light to commit some of the worst sort of carnage on 20 million...