Repeated Animal Welfare Act violations found in follow-up inspection EVERETT, Washington––Citing repeated and continuing alleged violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act by the Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories’ facility in Everett, Washington, Stop Animal Exploitation on June 19, 2017 asked USDA Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service western regional director Robert Gibbens to terminate […]
The Six Million Dollar Chimps
Will $6 million be enough to provide lifetime care to as many as 66 chimps abandoned in Liberia by the New York Blood Center? NEW YORK CITY, WASHINGTON D.C.––Response from animal advocates was mixed after Humane Society of the U.S. president Wayne Pacelle on May 30, 2017 announced a $6 million commitment from the […]
Trump triumph: zapping USDA web site zapped “puppy mill” law too
Maryland legislature & SAEN try to undo some of the damage BALTIMORE, CINCINNATI––Can a federal agency nullify state law just by taking down a web site? While proposing budget cuts that would hamper animal-related law enforcement under every federal agency with relevant jurisdiction, the Donald Trump administration on February 17, 2017 at least temporarily […]
Thumbing nose at lawsuits, USDA-APHIS hides more info
Deletes documents posted in response to Freedom of Information Act requests WASHINGTON D.C.––Hit with a second lawsuit, draft legislation, and letters from 119 members of Congress demanding that the U.S. Department of Agriculture restore web sites including Animal Welfare Act enforcement information, the USDA Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service has instead thumbed its collective […]
USDA-APHIS reposts less than 1% of deleted law enforcement info
More activists & animal charities sue WASHINGTON D.C.––The U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service on February 17, 2017 reposted some of the inspection reports on animal research facilities that it deleted from the USDA-APHIS web site two weeks earlier, on February 3, 2014, but not enough to quell protest or […]
Is Protect the Harvest behind USDA purge of Animal Welfare Act data?
Horse Protection Act enforcement info also deleted WASHINGTON D.C.––Months of well-placed rumors that U.S. agriculture policy under President Donald Trump will in effect be directed by Indiana oil magnate Forrest Lucas, founder of the anti-animal advocacy organization Protect the Harvest, appear to have been confirmed on February 3, 2017, when––without prior public notice––the USDA […]
Conclusion: what the life & death of Harambe the gorilla means
Fast-moving events left no time for philosophy Part III of a three-part series. See also: The myth & mystery of Harambe the Cincinnati Zoo gorilla; Myth: that the gorilla Harambe “protected” fallen four-year-old; And the lesson from Harambe’s death is? Well, it’s not to blame mom. As the Harambe case developed, the events in the Cincinnati […]
Ringling may be illegally sending elephant blood to researchers, charges SAEN
Michael Budkie writes: Re Ringling to move all elephants from the circus ring into cancer research by May 2016, Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus may be violating federal law by providing research material to the University of Utah from its soon-to-be retired elephants. Public records disclose that Feld Entertainment, the owner of the […]
Primate research labs near the ends of their ropes
Use of all species but macaques appears to be declining NORMAN, Oklahoma––The University of Oklahoma’s Health Sciences Center baboon research and breeding program is to end by 2019, university president David Boren announced on September 8, 2015. The University of Oklahoma thereby became the most recent of a growing number of U.S. academic institutions […]
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston failed to euthanize monkeys dying from Ebola-Marburg
Project leader Thomas W. Geisberg was 2014 TIME Person-of-theYear GALVESTON, Texas––A recent investigation of a disease in the Ebola family done at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston involved alleged “critical, major, and minor” violations of animal welfare protocols, according to an audit by the National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases. […]