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By Ingrid Newkirk President PETA With our troops a long way from home and new hotspots from the Ivory Coast to Venezuela and South Korea bubbling up around the globe, there has seldom been a more apt time to wish for peace on earth. This month, however, there was progress. Much emotion could Read More… Learn From History And Take Action On December 20th, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed a previous trial court decision and halted, for a second time, the killing of gray whales off the coast of Washington by the Makah tribe. The court ruled in favor of plantiffs (composed of the Fund for Animals, The HSUS, and Read More… Big Win For Whales In Washington State! Environmental and animal protection groups are decrying the EPA’s new regulations intended to address factory farm pollution. Giant factory animal farms, otherwise known as “confined animal feeding operations” (CAFOs), raise thousands of animals in enclosed metal sheds and produce around 220 billion gallons of liquefied manure each year. Stored in giant cesspools, the liquefied Read More… New Epa Regulations Spell Disaster For Animals And The Environment The European Union (EU) has taken the lead on numerous animal welfare issues, including bans on cruel battery cages, pig gestation crates, veal crates, and the steel-jawed leghold trap (all still widely in use in the U.S.). That's what makes EU Commissioner David Byrne's refusal to implement an EU ban on dog and cat Read More… Dog And Cat Fur Products Flooding Europe When a local news station in Seattle, Washington broadcast graphic footage of "downed animals" being mistreated at a slaughterhouse, viewers were shocked. KIRO 7 news investigators videotaped and aired footage of cows too sick or crippled to stand, being dropped off at slaughterhouses and then dragged or pushed with bulldozers to the killing floor. Read More… Slaughterhouse Cruelty Exposed! In response to a slow migration of wolves into areas of Oregon from which wolves were previously extirpated, the Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife (ODFW) is seeking comments regarding wolves and wolf management in Oregon. Since 1999, only three wolves are known to have naturally migrated into Oregon, all from Idaho. All were Read More… Comments Needed To Protect Oregon Wolves News media outlets across the country, including the New York Times, CNN, the Baltimore Sun, and the Associated Press ran stories this week on one animal advocacy group's investigation of alleged animal cruelty in the egg industry. Compassion Over Killing (COK), a Washington, D.C., animal advocacy group, revealed video footage of cruel conditions that Read More… Egg Farm Investigation Uncovers Abuse On Dember 19th, The Human Rights Campaign praised the New York State Legislature for enacting the Sexual Orientation Non Discrimination Act (SONDA), which provides gay men and lesbians with legal protection from discrimination in employment, housing, public accommodations, education and credit. The state Senate passed the legislation Tuesday in a special session with a Read More… HRC Commends New York As It Becomes 13th State To Enact Non-Discrimination Legislation offices of faith-based initiatives within the executive branch at the Department of Agriculture and the Agency for International Development. In the order's guidance, the administration stated for the first time that religious organizations that receive federal funding under this initiative must comply with state and local civil rights laws, including those that protect people Read More… HRC Responds To Presidential Guidance on Faith-Based Initiatives The Human Rights Campaign commended the Bush administration in December when it unveiled its guidance acknowledging state and local civil rights laws for the president's faith-based initiative. This is a departure from an earlier proposal from the Bush administration, H.R. 7, which would have allowed faith-based organizations receiving federal money to discriminate against the |
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