California Association for the Preservation of Gamefowl argues that 90% of game fowl breeders are Latino. So are 89% of 90 recent cockfighting-related murder victims. SACRAMENTO, California––California state assembly member Chris Rogers, a Democrat from Ukiah, might have imagined his anti-cockfighting bill, AB 928, would easily clear the state senate appropriations committee on August 3, […]
Cockfighters, dog & cat meat breeders play the violin for lost lives
Cruel hypocrisy masquerades as concern for exploited dogs, cats, & gamefowl SEOUL; HANOI; CROSS PLAINS, Texas; BENNETT, Colorado––One need not have spent much time personally investigating Southeast Asian dog and cat meat markets, or U.S. cockpits, or even just viewing the wealth of undercover and drone video of such operations gathered in recent years […]
Rotten eggs: Kroger stores & Korean Air flout animal welfare pledges
Will Kroger treat newly acquired Giant Eagle like egg suppliers’ laying hens? CINCINNATI, Ohio––Kroger (rhymes with ogre), the 143-year-old, 2,800-store second largest grocery store chain in the U.S., with 8.5% market share, trailing only Walmart, stole food and business media headlines nationwide on July 1, 2026 by announcing a $1.65 billion deal to acquire the […]
Inotive bankruptcy suggests laboratory monkey business is in a death spiral
Monkey business boom & bust cycle echoes the beginning of the end for chimp use in biomedical research WEST LAFAYETTE, Indiana––The June 3, 2026 bankruptcy declaration of laboratory monkey supplier Inotiv, Inc. and 18 affiliated debtors may signify that biomedical research use of monkeys has entered the same boom-and-bust death spiral that killed biomedical research […]
How “tiger porn” & kitten handling Trump the Big Cat Public Safety Act
The Shalom Wildlife Sanctuary, Knoxville Zoo, and Sharkarosa Zoo defy the intent of the Big Cat Public Safety Act, if not the actual letter of it WEST BEND, Wisconsin; KNOXVILLE, Tennessee; PILOT POINT, Texas––One might call it “tiger porn.” Mingling fantasy with delusion, voyeurism, exhibitionism, and profitable showmanship, the grotesquely misnamed roadside zoo calling […]
FDA commissioner Makary, critic of animal testing, gets the Trump boot
Following the Marty Makary & Pam Bondi exits, the last animal friends in the White House may be rats in the woodwork WASHINGTON D.C.––Resigning on May 12, 2026 under direct pressure from U.S. president Donald Trump, former U.S. Food & Drug Administration commissioner Marty Makary dashed with his forced exit whatever illusions anyone may still […]
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 […]
Wildlife at risk: Trump cabinet pushes exemptions for oil & lead polluters
Whales, sea turtles, eagles, waterfowl & bears all menaced by Trump administration rule reversals WASHINGTON D.C.––Moving to plant U.S. oil industry feet deeper in the public trough while global oil prices are soaring due to the Iranian blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on March 30, 2026 is to convene a […]
No Valentines for animals in GOP Farm Bill released on Friday the 13th
The SOB Act, to overturn state-level farmed animal protections, is incorporated as a central feature of the draft 2026 Farm Bill WASHINGTON D.C.––U.S. House of Representatives Agriculture Committee chair Glenn “GT” Thompson, a Republican from Pennsylvania, waited until late on Friday the 13th of February 2026 to release the bad news text of the “Farm, […]
Can end of the “milk mandate” topple the new upside down Food Pyramid?
Fat cloud over school lunches may have a soy milk silver lining WASHINGTON D.C.––If U.S. president Donald Trump imagined that his January 14, 2026 media conference held to celebrate his signing of the Whole Milk For Healthy Kids Act might upstage the fatal shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis a week earlier by ICE agent […]