The “Save Our Bacon Act” a.k.a. the “SOB Act,” and the FIGHT Act head a long list of Farm Bill 2026 showdown items WASHINGTON D.C.––Thursday, August 6, 2026 is mark-up and amendment day, for reconciliation of the Senate and House of Representatives versions 2026 Farm Bill. That makes August 6, 2026 the showdown day at […]
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 […]
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 […]
A worse record on animals than Kristi Noem? Meet Markwayne Mullin
Pigeon shooter & advocate for horse slaughter nominated by Donald Trump to head Homeland Security WASHINGTON D.C.––Pigeons don’t hold seats on Congressional committees. Horses don’t either, though some allege that horses’ rear ends do. But it is safe to suggest that if either pigeons or horses, both reputedly among the most intelligent of animals, had […]
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 […]
How snowmobile wolf killer Cody Roberts helped to restore wolf protection
Montana federal judge rules Fish & Wildlife Service wrongly returned wolf management to states CHEYENNE, Wyoming; MISSOULA, Montana––In the court of public opinion, one wolf stands for all. An August 5, 2025 verdict rendered by U.S. District Court Judge Donald Molloy may return wolves in the western states to Endangered Species Act protection. But as […]
Trump administration moves to protect pangolins, but not giraffes or hippos
Giraffes, hippos, & polar bears are in trophy hunting demand. Pangolin demand is believed to come chiefly from China. WASHINGTON D.C.––The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service on June 17, 2025 formally proposed in the Federal Register to protect pangolins under the Endangered Species Act. Pangolins are the first vertebrate species to be proposed for an […]