Animals on factory farms are forcibly administered antibiotics, allowing farmers to keep them in filthy, overcrowded conditions without spreading diseases. However, misuse and overuse of antibiotics has led to a rise of antibiotic-resistant and sometimes fatal bacteria in farm animals across the U.S. Demand improvements to farm animal welfare and stricter regulations on antibiotic use in these animals to prevent another epidemic.
Beagles at a mass breeding facility are sent to labs where they are reportedly force-fed poisons and die horrific deaths. Call for an end to this legalized animal cruelty.
Many animal abusers go on to harm children and other animals. Yet, the intentional maiming, torturing, mutilating, beating, or killing of helpless animals is still classified as only a misdemeanor in most states across the U.S. Demand much stricter penalties for animal abuse.
Millions of stray dogs and cats in the U.S. are forced to suffer on streets or are euthanized by overcrowded shelters each year. Sterilization programs can help control feral animal populations and reduce the number of animals born into the cold world. Demand these programs receive federal funding.
Canada has forbidden the rescue of dogs from over 100 countries across the world, leaving these animals to either languish away in kennels or be euthanized. Demand this policy be amended to allow adoptable dogs into the country.
Pet obesity has become a national epidemic which causes severe health complications in dogs and cats. Weakly regulated pet food manufacturing and labeling is partially to blame. Demand tighter regulations to supply pets with only the best, healthiest foods.
Video posted on social media appears to show a man brutally whipping his dog until the animal howled in pain. Don’t let the apparent victim and other helpless pets stay in the suspect’s custody.
Homeless animals are in danger of being turned out into the streets where they will suffer starvation and abuse. Stop a misguided effort that would prevent rescuers from giving abandoned pets shelter.
Whales are still being stolen from the oceans and held captive for profit. This imprisonment places extreme stress on these highly social mammals, resulting in severe depression. Demand an end to the capture and imprisonment of whales.
A man is accused of beating his dog, Sophie, until neighbors called for help after hearing her cries of distress. She was reportedly found in starved condition and with fractured bones. Demand justice for Sophie.
Ventilation shutdown plus is a method of mass murder that is commonly used to kill tens of thousands of birds at once. They are packed into sealed barns and heated to death. Stop the USDA from funding this terrible practice and encourage alternative, more humane methods in its place.
A young dog died from horrifying torture and mutilation. The killer of this defenseless animal remains at large. Demand a just punishment when he or she is found.
The journey from farm to slaughterhouse is treacherous, and thousands of animals die before ever even arriving. Demand the US tighten federal legislation surrounding animal welfare on transport vehicles.
Millions of bunnies, guinea pigs, mice, and rats are forced to ingest harmful chemicals to test human cosmetic products. Stop these cruel and unnecessary animal tests once and for all.
A woman has been accused of practicing unlicensed veterinary medicine and inflicting serious injury on at least one animal. Urge a full and vigorous prosecution of this case.
Livestock and wildlife in live animal auctions endure extreme mistreatment by their handlers. These animals are peddled off like objects to whoever offers the most money for them. Stop these auctions from happening in the U.S.
Sturgeon fish are brutally cut open–often while still alive and conscious–so that their eggs can be stolen from their ovaries and sold as caviar. A “delicacy” that causes so much suffering and pain is no delicacy at all. Demand a ban against caviar in the state of New York.
No individual convicted of hurting animals should ever have the opportunity to repeat a heinous crime. Demand New Jersey finally safeguard its domesticated animals from known abusers.
Hundreds to thousands of scared companion animals, wildlife, and livestock experience severe mental and physical trauma every year because of the loud explosive noises that fireworks release. Demand stricter regulations on the purchase and use of these environmentally hazardous devices.
The exotic pet trade industry is particularly cruel, and animals that end up as pets are either trapped and stolen from their homes by poachers or bred into a life of captivity. Demand that action is taken, and ban the ownership of exotic animal throughout the U.S.
