Hoarding situations are bad enough even when the people with jurisdiction respond AUSTIN, Texas; CASWELL, Alaska; RIVERSIDE, California––Among the first 49 animal hoarding cases coming to the notice of ANIMALS 24-7 during the first four months of 2026, three in particular stand out, not because they were among the biggest, though one was, but because […]
Ingrid Newkirk to Tracy Reiman: Is PETA changing the guard, or just the titles?
Founder Newkirk becomes PETA “principal,” succeeded by 35-year staffer Reiman NORFOLK, Virginia––People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals [PETA] founder Ingrid Newkirk, 76, on August 1, 2025 announced her retirement as president, after 45 years, naming as her successor longtime PETA executive vice president Tracy Reiman, 57. Reiman, a PETA employee since 1991, will now […]
Postal error kills up to 15,000 newly hatched chicks, leaves SPCA with 2,000+
Delaware disaster draws attention yet again to inhumanity of mailing live birds CAMDEN, Delaware–“More than two thousand” chicks, survivors of as many as 17,000 abandoned for four days at a U.S. Postal Service distribution center circa April 29, 2025, remain at the First State Animal Center & SPCA, shelter director John Parana told media. More […]
Trump cabinet choices Bondi & Rollins: opposing views on pig welfare laws?
Pam Bondi defended Florida pig welfare law; Rollins endorsed the EATS Act, to erase states’ ability to enforce farmed animal welfare WASHINGTON D.C.––The U.S. Senate on February 5, 2025 confirmed Pam Bondi as attorney general of the U.S. Confirmation of Bondi set up a potential conflict with another Donald Trump administration cabinet nominee, Brooke Rollins, […]
“Depopulation” cannot stop H5N1, vet reform group & Pacelle warn
Inefficient, inhumane, & ineffective––and evades addressing the cockfighting vector WASHINGTON, D.C.; BERKELEY, California; SACRAMENTO, California––“Since the bird flu H5N1 was detected in our homeland in February 2022, government authorities, mainly at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, have ordered the killing of 134.7 million poultry,” railed Wayne Pacelle, president of Animal Wellness Action and the Center […]
Remembering United Poultry Concerns founder Karen Davis at Thanksgiving
Turkeys are first condemned, then pardoned, without a statement of rights (See also Karen Davis, Ph.D., United Poultry Concerns founder, dead at 79.) WASHINGTON D.C.––Perhaps nothing could underscore the role of turkeys as Thanksgiving sacrificial victims than the annual ritual at which U.S. President Joe Biden on November 25, 2024 “pardoned” the turkeys Peach and Blossom […]
What is former Humane Society of the U.S. trying to hide with name change?
New name, Humane World for Animals, to be used starting on Valentine’s Day 2025 WASHINGTON D.C.––The cat is out of the Humane Society of the United States logo, along with the pit bull, the puma, the cow, the bighorn sheep, the greyhound, the seal, the pigeon, the monkey, the beaver, the bunny, the bottlenose dolphin, […]
What will deportations do to cockfighting, charreada, & outlaw horse racing?
Most participants in cockfighting, charreada, & outlaw horse racing speak Spanish, but Anglo cockfighters & gamecock breeders make most of the money WASHINGTON D.C.––What might be the impact on cockfighting, charreada, also called “Mexican rodeo,” and outlaw quarter horse racing, if the incoming Donald Trump administration proceeds with mass deportations of illegal immigrants? The question […]
What Wayne Hsiung, Mercy for Animals, & others did for Thanksgiving
“Open rescues,” closed jail cells, undercover video, & two challenges to “ag gags” in Canada SANTA ROSA & LOS ANGELES, California––Mass media food sections, as always, fixated during the run-up to Thanksgiving 2023 on how best to roast turkeys. Vegan and vegetarian media comparably focused on promoting plant-based alternatives to turkey dinners Direct Action […]
More Than a Meal: Thanksgiving, turkeys, tradition & Karen Davis
First condemned, then pardoned, without a statement of rights WASHINGTON D.C.––Perhaps nothing could underscore the role of turkeys as Thanksgiving sacrificial victims than the annual ritual at which U.S. President Joe Biden on November 21, 2022 “pardoned” the 46-pound and 47-pound turkeys Chocolate and Chip on the South Lawn of the White House. For what […]