Compliance with FDA Modernization Act 2.0 comes only after FDA Modernization Act 3.0, compelling compliance, has already passed U.S. Senate & House of Representatives WASHINGTON D.C.––The U.S. Food & Drug Administration [FDA] on September 21, 2026 issued a long delayed “direct final rule,” it announced, “that updates regulations to clarify that non-animal methods can be […]
Dogs & cat use in labs is up under Trump/Kennedy, says White Coat Waste
Former Trump ally details new use of beagles & kittens in report MAHA Betrayed WASHINGTON D.C.––Apologists for the abysmal record of the second Donald Trump administration on animal issues have thus far tended to offset harm to wildlife, farmed animals, and horses, both wild and domestic, by citing purported huge reductions in animal use for […]
Pit bulls in court: dead include three babies, a grandma, & a grandpa
Yet another baby killed by pit bull/Akita as this article was posted VIDOR, Texas; GREENVILLE, Ohio; MARKLE, Indiana; TULLAHOMA, Tennessee––Orange County, Texas sheriff Bobby Smith on September 19, 2026 confirmed to Scott Lawrence of KFDM television news in Beaumont that a pit bull/Akita cross killed a month-old baby girl at about 2:50 a.m. that […]
Peter Max, artist, vegetarian, & pro-animal philanthropist, dies at 88
Peter & Mary Max were “a consistent presence” at New York City galas for animal causes NEW YORK CITY––Artist and pro-animal philanthopist Peter Max died in Manhattan, New York City, on September 14, 2026, after a fourteen-year struggle with dementia, his son Adam Max disclosed two days later. Peter Max, “a vegetarian and a teetotaler […]
Five alleged cockfighters indicted; ex-NFL star convicted of dog fighting
Good news from the Department of Justice on both the cockfighting & dog fighting fronts––but what took so long? BOWLING GREEN, Kentucky; MUSKOGEE, Oklahoma––September 10, 2026 brought dramatic demonstrations both in the Appalachians and on the Great Plains of why Congress needs to pass––and enforce––the FIGHT Act to knock the money out of cockfighting and […]
Why are those men in black swinging chickens over their heads?
Yom Kippur, Kapporos, & what Jewish animal advocates are doing about it NEW YORK, N.Y.––Yom Kippur, to be celebrated in 2026 from sundown on Sunday, September 20, until dusk on Monday, September 21, 2026, is to observant Jews the holiest and most solemn day of the year. To the other 97.5% of Americans, if baseball […]
Can 15-miles-a-day march on the Erie Canal save Marshall Farms beagles?
Whatever the 207-mile trek to Marshall Farms achieves, it is different ALBANY, New York––Animal advocacy marches have historically had a history of dismal failure, but “March to Abolish Animal Testing” co-leaders Gretchen Primack, 55, and Ella Magers, 46, are taking a distinctly different direction. The organizers of 1990 “March for the Animals” in Washington […]
Catalina Island Conservancy invokes drone ban, starts killing 2,000 deer
Deer cull may do more for wine-growing relatives of Catalina Island Conservancy founder than for either nature or claimed pretext of fire suppression LOS ANGELES––Henry David Thoreau, had he been an observer of the Catalina Island mule deer cull now underway, might have observed that “Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find […]
Remembering the animal & human heroes of 9/11 twenty-five years later
A quarter of a century later, recollections remain vivid & the aftershocks rumble on September 11, 2001, though it reshaped our world, is now as remote as Pearl Harbor Day, December 7, 1941, was to Americans born in 1966, who have now reached or will soon be reaching 60 years of age. Yet the current […]
Ed Duvin: “I saw the best minds of animal advocacy destroyed by madness”
The no-kill movement is not yet old enough to be suffering from advanced dementia This will be a different essay than I normally write, not carefully constructed and edited, but a stream of thoughts shared with fellow activists. Why? Issues that should elicit a sense of urgency in the movement, from the rising bloodshed by […]