This guide is intended to serve as an educational tool for attorneys and advocates working with pet-owning domestic violence survivors in Maryland.
Date created: January 24, 2022
Last updated: February 7, 2024
This guide is intended to serve as an educational tool for attorneys and advocates working with pet-owning domestic violence survivors in Texas.
Date created: June 25, 2021
Last updated: February 21, 2024
This guide is intended to serve as an educational tool for attorneys and advocates working with pet-owning domestic violence survivors in the District of Columbia.
Date created: July 22, 2021
Last updated: February 7, 2024
This guide is intended to serve as an educational tool for attorneys and advocates working with pet-owning domestic violence survivors in Virginia.
Date created: July 21, 2021
Last updated: February 21, 2024
This guide is intended to serve as an educational tool for attorneys and advocates working with pet-owning domestic violence survivors in Tennessee.
Date created: February 8, 2023
Last updated: February 7, 2024
This guide is intended to serve as an educational tool for attorneys and advocates working with pet-owning domestic violence survivors in New York.
Date created: February 15, 2023
Last updated: February 7, 2024
Date created: June 27, 2011
Last updated: September 12, 2024
AWI and Farm Sanctuary sued the US Department of Agriculture in 2018 for failing to respond to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for department records related to the treatment of animals in US slaughter plants.
Date created: March 15, 2019
Last updated: June 13, 2024
In 2014, AWI petitioned the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) to amend labeling regulations under the Federal Meat Inspection Act (FMIA) and the Poultry Products Inspection Act (PPIA) to require independent third-party certification
Date created: March 15, 2019
Last updated: June 13, 2024
Despite AAALAC’s mission statement that voluntary accreditation “enhances the quality of research, testing and education by promoting humane and responsible research animal care and use,” the USDA record shows that animal suffering and death has occurred repeatedly for years at accredited facilities.
Date created: October 11, 2019
Last updated: October 8, 2020
In May, the Singapore-flagged X-Press Pearl container ship caught fire off the coast of Sri Lanka while traveling through the Indian Ocean. The crew was evacuated, and the ship ultimately sank.
Date created: August 19, 2021
Last updated: August 30, 2021
Today, the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI), Project Coyote, and the Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) released the results of an investigation of an Indiana “penning” facility, uncovering extreme animal suffering and providing strong evidence that wild coyotes are being illegally confined and killed by hunting dogs. The findings of the investigation, which took place in 2012 at WCI Foxhound Training Preserve, near the town of Linton in southwestern Indiana, further suggest that the Indiana Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) has turned a blind eye to this illegal conduct and instead encouraged penning in the state. Results are detailed in the new report, Indiana Coyote Penning—An Inside Look at Animal Abuse and Cruelty.
Date created: September 6, 2013
Last updated: February 2, 2022
In Indiana, one must have a permit to possess wildlife outside of hunting season. Apparently, though, "possess" is a very flexible word.
Date created: October 3, 2011
Last updated: January 8, 2020
The Global Indigenous Council today released “FAMILY,” a short film highlighting the deep cultural connection Indigenous nations share with wolves and the major threats currently facing imperiled wolves in the lower 48 states.
Date created: July 7, 2021
Last updated: January 18, 2024
Industrial chicken farming - whether for meat or egg production - is notoriously inhumane. Chickens raised for meat live in crowded, windowless barns, induced into a state of semi-torpor, while those raised to lay eggs are stuffed into cramped cages, existing under conditions so stressful they have their beaks mutilated to prevent pecking each other to death.
Date created: May 4, 2011
Last updated: January 8, 2020
In a joint study, scientists at Johns Hopkins’ Center for a Livable Future (CLF) and Arizona State University found evidence suggesting that a class of antibiotics previously banned by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for poultry production is still in use. The antibiotics detected—fluoroquinolones—were found in 8 of 12 samples of feather meal in a multi-state study, published in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Science and Technology.
Date created: May 7, 2012
Last updated: January 16, 2020
Tyson and Smithfield announced changes to their respective animal care programs for pigs and the operations they are raised within. Both companies are asking/instructing producers to improve their production practices by implementing basic animal welfare requirements and recommendations.
Date created: May 28, 2014
Last updated: January 9, 2020
An inspection report from August 6 for the US Meat Animal Research Center (MARC) documents extreme neglect of animals, including “repeated failures” to follow veterinarian instructions.
Date created: October 10, 2019
Last updated: January 23, 2020
Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) last struck the poultry industry in the United States in 2015, when 48 million backyard and commercial birds were confirmed infected.
Date created: April 20, 2022
Last updated: April 25, 2022
The influences of housing location and temporal factors on the results of blood sampling were examined to determine their contributions to levels of hypothalamic-pituitary- adrenal hormones, as well as leukocyte subset counts from peripheral blood in rhesus monkeys. Differences in housing location and the amount of room disturbance associated with blood sampling have a significant impact on cell counts, but not on ACTH or cortisol levels.
Date created: April 12, 2016
Last updated: November 11, 2020
Date created: September 14, 2012
Last updated: June 26, 2019
Early last May in the heart of coastal British Columbia’s Great Bear Rainforest, an area that safeguards one of the planet’s last grizzly bear-salmon strongholds, my team from the Raincoast Conservation Foundation set out to tackle a pivotal conservation problem with applied science, ethics and something we call "informed advocacy."
Date created: February 25, 2010
Last updated: January 9, 2020
The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) denounces the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) for its weak settlement agreement with SNBL USA—a subsidiary of Japan-based Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories that allegedly committed dozens of Animal Welfare Act (AWA) violations over the course of five years, including actions that led to the deaths of 38 nonhuman primates.
Date created: October 16, 2020
Last updated: October 16, 2020
The rearing of farm animals today is dominated by industrialized facilities known as concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs (often referred to as “factory farms”) that maximize profits by treating animals not as sentient creatures, but as production units. Raised by the thousands at a single location, animals are confined in such tight quarters that they can barely move, let alone behave normally.
Date created: September 20, 2011
Last updated: March 4, 2024
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) indefinitely pulled its inspectors from Brooksville Meat Fabrication (“Brooksville”), a slaughterhouse in Bracken County, Kentucky, for inhumane handling and slaughtering of animals. Without USDA inspectors, Brooksville cannot legally process meat for sale in interstate commerce.
Date created: August 22, 2014
Last updated: January 8, 2020
