Press Releases

On Tuesday, Humane World for Animals, formerly called the Humane Society of the United States, assisted the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) with the rescue 34 dogs from a suspected dogfighting operation in Chesterfield County, South Carolina.  

WASHINGTON—In a vote largely on partisan lines, the U.S. House of Representatives overlooked serious flaws in the Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026 and voted 224 to 200 to pass legislation full of harmful provisions impacting animals, communities, families and the environment.

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Today, Gov. Wes Moore signed S.B.

Representatives from the Mars Impact Fund, the philanthropic entity of Mars, Incorporated, a global pet care, snacking, and food company visited Humane World for Animals India’s Animal Birth Control centre in Lucknow to observe the city's integrated humane street dog management and community engagement program.

Puppy mills included in this year’s report were found to have dogs kept in dangerous, dirty or cramped conditions; dogs dying from untreated wounds and hypothermia; and a breeder cited for a botched DIY-tail docking.

SACRAMENTO, Calif.—Tuesday the California Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee rejected SB 1212 (Jones-R). This bill would have removed kangaroos from California’s longstanding wildlife trade protections, opening the state to the exploitative commercial

Liberal Democrat MP and Environment spokesperson Sarah Dyke has led a cross‑party letter to the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) calling on the Government to bring forward mandatory, clear and consistent animal welfare labelling on meat products, and to strengthen enforcement against misleading claims in food marketing.

WASHINGTON—Today Humane World for Animals, formerly called the Humane Society of the United States, released its 2026 Food Service Industry Protein Sustainability Scorecard<

Momentum is building to ban bullfighting in the state of Hidalgo, which could become the seventh state in Mexico to prohibit the practice. Yesterday, as part of its ongoing efforts to support legislative action against bullfighting, Humane World for Animals provided scientific and technical background at the first-ever bullfighting forum held at the Congress Tower of the State of Hidalgo.