Beagles bark, money talks, & the two Waynes whose work achieved the deal––Hsiung & Pacelle ––are left chained to the doghouse BLUE MOUNDS, Wisconsin––The decade-long campaign to close the Ridglan Farms beagles-for-research breeding facility begun by Direct Action Everywhere founder and Simple Heart blogger Wayne Hsiung in 2017 can now be called a victory, at […]
Ridglan Farms beagle purchase: smokescreen for Farm Bill disaster
1,500 beagles win; 76 million pigs lose. WASHINGTON D.C.; MIDDLETON, Wisconsin––Even as the U.S. House of Representatives on the morning of April 30, 2026 passed the 2026 Farm Bill, by a vote of 224-200, which if also passed by the U.S. Senate would erase Wayne Pacelle’s signature political achievements on behalf of 76 million farmed […]
“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 […]
How 725 million chickens lost the Super Bowl, & got a bum deal in U.K. too
But activists from Big Ben to the Silicon Valley are squawking LAS VEGAS, Nevada––Representing the chicken meat industry, the National Chicken Council on January 31, 2024 hitched a ride on Super Bowl hype by publicizing that football viewers would eat 1.45 billion chicken wings during the February 11, 2024 championship game between the San Francisco […]