Turning the Tide Against Puppy Mills
Recently, I blogged about exciting news that the U.S. Department of Agriculture would propose a rule requiring large-scale puppy mills and kitten mill...
Recently, I blogged about exciting news that the U.S. Department of Agriculture would propose a rule requiring large-scale puppy mills and kitten mill...
HuffingtonPost.com | Joanna Zelman | Posted 05.21.2012
Earlier this year, the Humane Society of the United States prepared a young animal rights advocate for the sorts of abuse they expected her to encount...
Bruce Friedrich | Posted 05.09.2012
Science backs up common sense: Shoving pipes down birds' throat several times a day and pumping them so full of food that their livers become diseased and balloon up is horribly cruel.
HuffingtonPost.com | Joanna Zelman | Posted 05.08.2012
Piglets are haphazardly swung in circles, sows are beaten, and animals squirm with untreated abscesses in new footage alleging animal abuse at a Wyomi...
Wayne Pacelle | Posted 04.26.2012
According to its new policy, BK will only do business with pork suppliers that have detailed plans to end their use of gestation crates.
Richard Schiffman | Posted 05.28.2012
Just as we require political ads to disclose the sources of their funding, we should make sure that these faceless front groups come out of the shadows and tell us up front -- on the ads themselves -- who exactly is paying for them.
Wayne Pacelle | Posted 04.14.2012
It's the biggest and perhaps best-known restaurant chain in the world. And today, in a joint statement with The Humane Society of the United States, i...
Bruce Friedrich | Posted 04.09.2012
The past few months have been deeply encouraging for Americans who care about the worst abuses of farm animals, as legislation has been introduced tha...
HuffingtonPost.com | Joanna Zelman | Posted 02.01.2012
Legal action is underway following an undercover investigation by The Humane Society of the United States that has alleged inhumane treatment at a pig...
Wayne Pacelle | Posted 03.13.2012
With three years completed in his term, President Barack Obama is moving decidedly in the wrong direction on animal welfare issues, earning a grade of "C-minus" for 2011.
Andrew Gunther | Posted 02.27.2012
Cheap food comes at a cost. But the good news is that it is not too late to change the way our food is produced.
Wayne Pacelle | Posted 02.06.2012
In our latest undercover investigation, investigators and attorneys dug into the world of Internet puppy sellers and found not only the underlying cruelty of puppy mills, but also deceptive sales tactics.
Wayne Pacelle | Posted 01.16.2012
While euthanasia rates for dogs and cats in our nation's animal care and control facilities have been in steady decline for more than three decades, there are still millions of healthy dogs and cats euthanized every year. We as a nation shouldn't stand for that.
AP | TRACIE CONE | Posted 11.13.2011
FRESNO, Calif. -- When the Humane Society of the United States released a disturbing video of a downer cow at a California slaughterhouse, it spurred ...
Wayne Pacelle | Posted 01.08.2012
If I told you that pigs confined in gestation crates -- cages barely larger than the animals' bodies, in which they don't have enough space even to turn around -- were living in "ideal" conditions where their "every need is met," you'd probably have a quarrel with that.
Wayne Pacelle | Posted 11.21.2011
Within the last 18 months, our Animal Rescue Team, including our staff at Humane Society International in Canada, has put a stop to some horrible abuses of dogs at several large-scale puppy breeding facilities in Quebec.
Andrew Gunther | Posted 09.13.2011
The latest agreement between HSUS and UEP appears to offer little in terms of animal welfare, yet much in terms of positive PR.
Josh Tetrick | Posted 09.11.2011
Last week, the animal protection organization Mercy For Animals released a video taken undercover by an employee wearing a hidden camera at a dog fact...
Wayne Pacelle | Posted 09.07.2011
The goal of the Humane Society is not endless campaigning or conflict with political adversaries, but to forge solutions that produce tangible and meaningful outcomes for animals and show a new way forward in society.
Bruce Friedrich | Posted 09.06.2011
For 25 years, Farm Sanctuary's Mephistopheles has been the egg industry, which is the most abusive of all the farmed animal industries. And yet today, the egg industry's trade group, the United Egg Producers, has agreed to support federal legislation that we also endorse.
Josh Tetrick | Posted 08.26.2011
Why save dogs, but eat other animals? Pigs are more intelligent. They can dream, recognize their own names, fetch a tennis ball, and lead social lives of a complexity previously observed only in primates. Some even enjoy cuddling.
Wayne Pacelle | Posted 05.25.2011
Today, a coalition filed a proposed initiative petition in Washington state to halt the use of battery cage confinement in egg production.There is a commercially viable alternative: cage-free production.
David Kirby | Posted 05.25.2011
Pork shoulder at my local supermarket costs 99 cents a pound, but zucchini cost $1.99 a pound. Why? Because American factory farms mass produce swine with such efficiency that the cash value of a pig's life has dwindled downward.
Mary Ann West | Posted 05.25.2011
Why should you care what happens at the Missouri puppy mills, you ask? With one in every four dogs purchased at U.S. pet stores coming from Missouri dog factories, every state that sells dogs has suffered the negative effects.
Mary Ann West | Posted 11.17.2011
Each year an estimated two million puppies are purchased, bought, sold or adopted with an overwhelming number of pet store puppies coming from large commercial breeders.
Wayne Pacelle | Posted 05.24.2012