Blog Profile / Animals & Politics
| URL : | http://hslf.typepad.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Issues & Causes / Animal Rights & Welfare | |
| Posts on Regator: | 264 | |
| Posts / Week: | 1.3 | |
| Archived Since: | July 25, 2009 | |
Blog Post Archive
U.S. House Passes Bill to Protect Wild Horses
The U.S. House of Representatives late yesterday, by unanimous voice vote, passed H.R. 306, the Corolla Wild Horses Protection Act, introduced by Rep. Walter Jones, R-N.C. This legislation, strongly supported by HSLF and other animal protection groups, will ensure the...
Podcast: An Egg-Citing Bill, Rating Federal Policymakers
Today I posted the latest installment of the “Animals & Politics” podcast, hosted by Patrick Ferrise, in which we discuss the new legislation in Congress to improve the treatment of egg-laying hens, and our 2011 ratings for federal lawmakers and...
Michigan Launches Full-Scale Campaign Against Animal Fighting
A trio of bills before the Michigan Legislature takes full-scale aim at dogfighting and cockfighting in creative and meaningful ways that could serve as a model for other states. These bills have passed the Michigan Senate as well as the...
New Bill for Hens Provides New Pathway Forward
A year ago at the president’s State of the Union address, Democrats and Republicans sat together, in a show of solidarity for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., severely injured at a mass shooting in her district. Tonight’s address is likely to...
Hot Off the Press: 112th Congress Midterm Humane Scorecard
Last month I provided a look at our 2011 congressional year in review for animals, and noted many of the achievements and setbacks during the first half of the 112th Congress. We made progress for animal protection on a number...
Where do the GOP Candidates Stand on Animal Issues?
The Humane Society Legislative Fund has not yet made any recommendation in the 2012 presidential race, but over the coming months we will be evaluating President Obama’s animal welfare record during his first term and looking at where the major...
The 2011 Congressional Year in Review for Animals
As the first year of the 112th Congress draws to a close, the Humane Society Legislative Fund takes stock of how animal protection fared in 2011. Despite congressional gridlock, budget standoffs, and deepening partisan divides, we were able to win...
Ask Your Lawmakers to Cosponsor Key Animal Protection Bills
A new HSUS investigation released last week exposed Purebred Breeders LLC (PBB), thought to be the nation’s largest online seller of puppies, peddling sick dogs to unsuspecting consumers. The company owns nearly 800 Web domains for the purpose of leading...
Stamping Out Animal Fighting Benefactors
Among the most important animal protection laws passed by Congress over the last few years have been those to crack down on dogfighting and cockfighting, closing loopholes on commerce in fighting birds and weapons attached to them, upgrading the penalties...
Another Family Pet Killed by Federal Agents
This past August in Gresham, Oregon, the McCurtain family’s 7-year-old Border collie named Maggie was strangled after being caught in a body-gripping kill trap that had been set for aquatic fur-bearing nutria along a lake front in an affluent residential...
Obama Obstructionism: Procrastinating on Pythons
A bipartisan group from Florida’s congressional delegation is calling on President Obama to finalize a long-delayed rule barring the trade in dangerous giant snakes. A letter from U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., and a House letter led by U.S. Rep....
Minibus Drives Forward for Animal Welfare Funding, Backward for Horse Slaughter
A conference committee has finished its work on the “minibus,” a combination of three out of the twelve appropriations bills for Fiscal Year 2012, covering departments including agriculture, commerce, and transportation. The final package, which also includes a continuing resolution...
Key Committee to Decide on Footing the Bill for Horse Slaughter
The House and Senate have passed different versions of the agriculture spending bill for 2012, and a conference committee of key lawmakers is now working to iron out the differences and pass a final bill in the coming days. One...
Stepping Up Enforcement Against Puppy Mills
The dogs are finally getting their day. In recent weeks, there have been two major actions that will step up federal enforcement to crack down on the worst puppy mill abuses in the country. First, the U.S. Department of Agriculture....
Resolve on Reptiles
As the recent tragedy in Zanesville, Ohio so painfully illustrated, there’s no good reason for individuals to keep dangerous predators as pets, and the outcome is inevitably disastrous—for the people who are put at risk, for the wild animals themselves...
Cockfighters Guarding Honolulu’s Hen House
There would be widespread public outrage if a city, say, hired sex offenders to operate a child day care center, or hired dogfighters to run an animal shelter. It seems absurd but the local government in Honolulu, Hawaii, appears to...
Podcast: States & Feds Must Do More on Exotic Pet Trade
Today I posted the latest installment of the “Animals and Politics” podcast, hosted by Patrick Ferrise, in response to the horrible events that unfolded this week in Zanesville, Ohio. Governor John Kasich has signed an emergency order that doesn’t get...
Tragedy in Ohio Highlights Urgent Need for Action on Exotics
It was headline news around the globe this week when Terry Thompson opened the cages at his private menagerie in Zanesville, Ohio, and then shot himself. Local responders combed the neighborhood with helicopters and infrared technology trying to track down...
Puppy Mill Petition: Tell the White House that Dogs Matter
Last week’s rescue of more than 160 Malamutes from a Montana puppy mill that was selling sick puppies over the Internet underscores once again the need for more oversight of large-scale commercial dog breeding operations, especially online sellers. While the...
Sound Science for Sea Lions and Salmon
The Obama Administration’s record on animal welfare so far has been mixed. On the plus side, the Agriculture and Interior Departments have made progress on important policy issues such as improving humane slaughter enforcement, tightening the rules banning double-decker trucks...