Performance of Congress poor on animal welfare issues – HSUS

The Animal Fighting Spectator Prohibition Act
would cleft downwards on dogfighting. © Kathy Milani/The HSUS

The just-concluded session of Congress came upwardly brusque on meaningful animate beingness welfare legislation, the caput of the Humane Society of the U.S.A. (HSUS), Wayne Pacelle, says.

He labelled it a lame-duck session, proverb it passed no important animate beingness welfare legislation, despite a raft of bills amongst broad bipartisan support.

“For every bit long every bit I take away keep been spending fourth dimension on Capitol Hill together with advocating for The HSUS together with its concerns – xviii years – that’s the commencement fourth dimension that’s happened,” Pacelle said inwards his blog, Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Humane Nation.

The particulars were disturbing, he said.

“Republican House leaders, bowing to a handful of extremists inwards the caucus, would non select upwardly the Animal Fighting Spectator Prohibition Act, fifty-fifty though it passed the Senate overwhelmingly together with had 228 cosponsors inwards the House.

“It was primed for passage, but inwards the terminate nosotros saw entirely excuses together with obstructionism. The mensurate has no opposition other than organized animate beingness fighting interests, but it does take away keep to a greater extent than than 300 police enforcement agencies backing it.”

Pacelle noted that Congress did non take away keep upwardly a mouth to stage out the purpose of barren battery cages, fifty-fifty though the monastic tell together with the United Egg Producers championed a solution, inwards price of a negotiated agreement, that promised to amend welfare standards for laying hens.

“The trunk took no activity to cleft downwards on transports of drugged-up American horses to slaughter inwards Canada together with Mexico, fifty-fifty though lxxx percentage of Americans desire to encounter the merchandise end.

“The HSUS has documented that American horses are injected together with fed a broad gain of drugs together with other substances long prohibited for purpose inwards animals slaughtered for human consumption.”

Congress also came upwardly brusque on legislation to ban the merchandise inwards nine species of large constricting snakes, together with a handful of senators blocked flooring consideration of the Great Ape Protection together with Cost Savings Act, pregnant that chimpanzees, close of them non fifty-fifty used inwards experiments, volition conk on to languish inwards laboratories at taxpayer expense.

“We take away keep a peachy many allies inwards Congress, but at that spot are also a small-scale number of lawmakers who are hostile to whatever progress on animate beingness welfare.

“We involve lawmakers to deed amongst the country’s best interests at heart, together with the run of the Congress should together with must include a rigid commitment to brand the field safer for animals together with to source out cruelty.

“We’re deeply disappointed inwards the collective run of Congress, but hopeful that a novel year, together with roughly novel faces inwards both chambers, volition prompt lawmakers to pay closer attending to the public’s wishes together with to exert its volition for the proficient of the country.”

 

Pacelle’s total weblog tin move read here. 

 

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