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 […]
Hours after Uvalde school killings, Iowa lawmakers authorize AR-15 deer hunt
New doe-and-fawn season DES MOINES, Iowa––Hours after Salvador Ramos used an AR-15 automatic rifle he gave himself as an 18th birthday present to massacre 19 fourth graders and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, the Iowa state house of representatives ratified a bill to create a special January antlerless deer hunting season for AR-15 users. The […]
$350 million for animal crossings, but zip for roadkill avoidance education
Win for HSUS is a gain, yet not the most cost-effective way to save animal & human lives on highways WASHINGTON D.C.––The first official U.S. national commitment to preventing roadkills of wildlife appears to have been buried deep within the $1.3 trillion Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act signed into law U.S. President Joe Biden […]
Hunters & birders get boost under Biden
Biden administration claims credit for unprecedented expansion of hunter access to National Wildlife Refuges initiated under Trump WASHINGTON D.C.––Why would the Joe Biden administration want to claim credit for one of the most odious actions of the Donald Trump administration pertaining to animals and habitat? Specifically, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service under Biden appointee […]
Trump appointee cut deal with NRA to boost hunting on the way out the door
But National Rifle Association declared bankruptcy two days later WASHINGTON D.C.––U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service director Aurelia Skipwith on January 13, 2021, a week from the end of the Donald Trump presidential administration and probably not much longer from her own replacement, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the National Rifle Association “to assist […]
Dogs replace SOB in White House. Pro-animal legislative candidates fared well too!
More than 400 legislators endorsed by animal groups were elected or re-elected on November 3, 2020 WASHINGTON D.C.––President-elect and new First Lady Joe and Jill Biden, to be inaugurated on January 20, 2021, will bring to the White House with them their two German shepherds, Champ and Major, ending the only four-year dog-less stretch in […]
Jill Biden upstages vegans’ attempt to upstage husband Joe
Kept “Let Dairy Die!” signs from grabbing more than a split second of TV time LOS ANGELES––Michael Bloomberg and spokespersons for Direct Action Everywhere sounded much like each other on March 4, 2020, congratulating themselves for fiascos that respectively knocked Bloomberg out of the U.S. presidential race and made a national heroine of Jill Biden, […]