17-count conviction follows two-week trial; sentence pending ROCKPORT, Texas––David Keith Wills, a former executive of four humane organizations including the Humane Society of the United States, faces a potential sentence of life in prison, following his conviction on October 8, 2019 by a U.S. federal court jury in Rockport, Texas on 17 counts pertaining […]
Haisley gets four years for robbery, domestic violence charges pending
History catches up to Animal Rescue Corps founder & former HSUS director of investigations WASHINGTON D.C.––The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia has disclosed that Animal Rescue Corps founder and former Humane Society of the U.S. director of investigations Scotlund Haisley, 51, of Montgomery County Maryland, was on September 13, 2019 sentenced […]
Exposé of “Dairy Disneyland” horrors gives agribiz the runs
Fair Oaks Farms’ Dairy Adventure was recently profiled as “One Farm’s Quest to Save Industrial Agriculture” FAIR OAKS, Indiana––Undercover video from Fair Oaks Farm in Fair Oaks, Indiana, has exposed extensive abuse of young calves at a facility widely billed as exemplifying a new, humane approach to factory farming. Animal Recovery Mission, of Miami […]
Mouse studies often don’t work, NIH admits after landmark 10-year study
National Institutes of Health finding in 2013 presaged Wellcome Foundation decision to close the Sanger Institute genetically modified mouse lab by 2022 WASHINGTON D.C. (March 2013)–– Bluntly stated the headline in the February 11, 2013 edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, “Genomic responses in mouse models poorly mimic human inflammatory diseases.” Echoing […]
Scotlund Haisley takes Subway to jail for alleged armed robbery
Haisley formerly headed Animal Rescue Corps, In Defense of Animals, HSUS emergency services, & Washington Animal Rescue League WASHINGTON D.C.––“On Saturday, January 26, 2019, 50-year-old Scotlund Thomas Haisley, of no fixed address, was arrested and charged with two counts of Robbery of an Establishment,” the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department announced to media in the early […]
Ex-HSUS vp David Wills child sex trial reset again, to Feb. 2019
Trial delayed since 2015 CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – Already postponed many times, the long awaited trial of former humane society executive David Keith Wills on a federal charge of allegedly trafficking a minor for sexual purposes has again been rescheduled. Previous delays have been attributed to the Wills defense team allegedly stalling for time. The current […]
Hen caging & greyhound racing go before voters in 2018 election
Animal advocates & agribusiness split over California Proposition 12; Republicans split over Florida Proposition 13 SACRAMENTO, California; ORLANDO, Florida––The axiom that animal politics cut diagonally across partisan divides could scarcely be better illustrated than by the alignments for and against the two major ballot initiatives on animal issues going before voters on November 6, […]
“Clean meat” advocate Shapiro pushes product to stretch hot dogs
Factory egg farmers meanwhile align behind HSUS-backed Proposition 12 SACRAMENTO, California––Paul Shapiro, the former Humane Society of the U.S. farmed animal campaigns manager and vegan advocate who resigned in January 2018 amid sexual harassment allegations, is now pushing a product meant to stretch hot dogs, burgers, and meatballs. A “blend of wheat protein, mushroom, […]
Wayne Pacelle & Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom celebrate returns from extinction
Sagas of alleged giant predators turned animal rights stars WASHINGTON D.C.––Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, a saga of supposedly vanished giant predators, reinvented as animal rights celebrities, debuted to bad reviews on June 22, 2018, yet proved to be a box office magnet, grossing $1.2 billion in its first month. Animal Wellness Action, a political action […]
Why the Second Amendment does not protect hunting animals
The only form of “hunting” that concerned the 2nd Amendment authors was catching fugitive slaves No part of the U.S. Constitution seems better known to hunters, or is more vehemently defended by pro-hunting organizations, than the single sentence that is the whole of the Second Amendment: “A well-regulated Militia being necessary to the security of […]
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