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Since July, a campaign showing the suffering of factory farmed McDonald’s chickens displayed on a…
Proposition 12 in California would establish new cage-free housing requirements for baby veal calves, mother…
In 1971, President Richard Nixon signed the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act, the first…
Passed in 1918, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act makes it illegal to “take posses, import,…
World Farm Animal Day came and went! Celebrate by supporting animal welfare in the 2018…
Direct Action Everywhere/YouTube Direct Action Everywhere protesters stormed a chicken plant near Petaluma, CA, which…
Mercy For Animals/YouTube Fish feel pain, which makes news that California Governor Jerry Brown signed…
In 1970, the public began to voice their outrage to Congress over the treatment of…
Gregory Smith/Flickr A U.S. District judge just reinstated the Yellowstone grizzly bear’s threatened-species status. He…
Vladimir Morozov/akxmedia This federal law set standards for animals being raised for food and transported across…
IAEA/Flickr This legislative mandate directed the Secretary of Health and Human Services to create and…
Originally passed in 1958, the law was amended in 1978, then again in 2002. It…
The Animal Welfare Act (AWA) was preceded in the 1960’s by a public outcry about…
In 1967 Congress appropriated $78 million in public funds to the Tennessee Valley Authority to…
A major point of contention over the last 20 years between residents and farmers has…
North Carolina became the first state to pass legislation that would prohibit the use of…
North Carolina has been and still is a hub for some of the most restrictive and controversial laws in the country, including those favoring the animal ag industry.
Ag-gag laws is a name given to a set of bills by former New York…
China used to require cosmetics to be tested on animals, which effectively banned cruelty-free brands like The…
Dogs kept in brutal conditions, right here in the United States? Sadly, it is more common than you’d think. The Intercept covers a major rescue operation exposing one dog farming operation.
And he isn’t the only one tapping a connection between animals and our keyboards. The digital animal research field is so big that even space agencies are signing onto the project.