Pre-election ploy: U.S. animal advocacy groups don’t say a peep about it WASHINGTON D.C.––The Department of the Interior on August 13, 2026 announced “the largest expansion of hunting and sport fishing opportunities in the history of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. “With this action,” the Department of the Interior crowed in a media release, […]
“Kill the barred owls!” agree U.S. Senate Democrats with Republicans
Scheme to kill barred owls allows timber industry to log off northern spotted owl habitat WASHINGTON D.C.––Twenty-nine days into a U.S. government shutdown due to a partisan impasse over a budget bill, Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Senate on October 29, 2025 overwhelming agreed in favor of massacring barred owls to protect northern spotted […]
Bald eagles get national honors & more lead shot in their guts for Christmas
Officially named the U.S. national bird after 242 years, bald eagles can’t get a break from the gun lobby WASHINGTON D.C.––Two hundred forty-two years after first appearing on the U.S. national seal, the bald eagle is now officially the U.S. national bird––but that designation as yet does nothing whatever to protect eagles from ingesting […]
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 […]
Kamala Harris: most pro-animal record of any presidential candidate ever
Donald Trump, as president, had the worst record on animal issues since the cockfighter Andrew Jackson WASHINGTON D.C.––Though drawing sharp distinctions between themselves during the closing days of the keenly contested 2024 U.S. Presidential election, candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have said little––because pollsters and pundits have not asked––about perhaps the starkest difference of […]
Humane Society Legislative Fund endorses Kamala Harris
Why the Humane Society Legislative Fund could swing the Electoral College vote to Kamala Harris on November 5, 2024 WASHINGTON D.C.––The Humane Society Legislative Fund, a subsidiary of the Humane Society of the United States, on October 2, 2024 endorsed U.S. vice president Kamala Harris in her run against former president Donald Trump to succeed […]
VP Kamala Harris has long, strong record on animal issues
Pro-animal record as prosecutor, candidate, and in office WASHINGTON D.C.––U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, 59, endorsed by President Joe Biden to become his successor as Democratic presidential candidate in the November 5, 2024 general election, would become not only the first African-American female and first Asian-American candidate to head the ticket for a national political […]
The “Stokes 7” are cats. Underlying issues include monsters.
Why is the V.A. pushing to continue cat experiments against the will of Congress & the White House, & offering top-of-front page links to advocacy groups for animal use in biomedical research? WASHINGTON D.C.––Initiated by the White Coat Waste Project on March 11, 2024, the same day the U.S. President Joe Biden endorsed into law […]
New film “Common Enemy” fingers factory farming, if anyone sees it
Factory farming lurks almost unmentioned behind many political issues OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma––The Humane League on March 7, 2024 released Common Enemy, a free-to-view 35-minute online documentary exposé of factory farming in Oklahoma, linked to every mention in this review. The timing could scarcely have been worse. Common Enemy, released a week earlier to selected […]
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 […]