#Act4 LabAnimals Dr. Aysha Akhtar, double board-certified neurologist, is on a mission to show how treating animals with kindness also benefits people in a “win-win” situation for all. Dr. Aysha Akhtar is leading a movement to end animal experiments 10 October 2020
#Act4 Pets Our Scottish member OneKind, has called on the Scottish Government to put an end to the breeding of flat-faced dogs, cats and rabbits, such as French bulldogs, amongst other welfare calls, ahead of the 2021 Scottish elections. OneKind launches 2021 manifesto calling on the Scottish Government to prioritise animal welfare 21 September 2020 OneKind
#Act4 FarmAnimals In documents dating to 2006, government officials predicted that a pandemic would threaten critical businesses and warned them to prepare. Meatpacking companies largely ignored them, and now nearly every one of the predictions has come true. Meatpacking companies dismissed years of warnings but now say nobody could have prepared for Covid-19 7 September 2020
#Act4 Pets On National No Pet Store Puppies Day, New York State moved one step closer to shutting down the puppy mill pipeline for good. NY Senate passes bill to end retail pet sales 26 July 2020
#Act4 LabAnimals We are seeing the impacts of COVID-19 nearly everywhere, including in the thousands of U.S. laboratories that use millions of animals. Protections for these animals were already thin, but now labs have sent workers home, including those who clean cages and provide water, and federal regulators have been eager to relax their already weak guidelines. Coronavirus exposes lack of animal welfare standards in biomedical research 26 June 2020
#Act4 Pets The USDA is responsible for licensing certain animal businesses, such as puppy mills and zoos, and enforcing federal animal welfare care standards. USDA must stop issuing new licenses to puppy mills during coronavirus 12 May 2020
#Act4 Wildlife Millions of live animals enter the U.S. each year without disease screening — leaving us vulnerable to another outbreak, a former wildlife inspector says. To prevent the next pandemic, it’s the legal wildlife trade we should worry about 7 May 2020
#Act4 FarmAnimals “If you actually want to create global pandemics, then build factory farms.” The meat we eat is a pandemic risk, too 23 April 2020
#Act4 FarmAnimals In the US, industrial slaughterhouses where hundreds of thousands of animals are killed every day, have become clusters of the Covid-19 pandemic. Industrial slaughterhouses have become COVID-19 clusters in the US 23 April 2020
#Act4 LabAnimals New York University Suspends 'Non-Essential Research' and Allows 'Only Critical Research;' leading to the killing of hundreds of animals PETA calls for New York University to Shut Down Animal Labs 15 April 2020
#Act4 FarmAnimals One of the country's largest pork processing facilities is closing until further notice as employees fall ill with Covid-19. One of the largest pork processing facilities in the US is closing until further notice 15 April 2020
#Act4 Wildlife Nadia, a tiger at the Bronx Zoo in New York, has become the first of her kind to test positive for the coronavirus. A tiger at the Bronx Zoo tests positive for coronavirus 6 April 2020