WASHINGTON, DC —At President Obama’s invitation, Rep. Elton Gallegly (R-CA) stood with him as the President signed Gallegly’s bill to outlaw animal crush videos at a White House ceremony today. Crush videos graphically depict the […]

DO YOU BELIEVE ANIMALS DESERVE BASIC LEGAL RIGHTS? Deprived of legal protection, animals are defenseless against exploitation and abuse by humans. Through the Animal Bill of Rights, the Animal Legal Defense Fund is working to […]

On Friday, November 19th, 2010, H.R. 5566, a bill which will ban animal crush videos in the United States, passed the Senate. It is now on its way to President Obama’s desk for his signature. […]

H.R. 5566 was passed with revision again. It appears that special interest groups have gotten some of the wording altered as per their concerns. The Senate will now have to vote on this bill once […]

A nine-month undercover investigation found that hundreds of dogs, cats, and rabbits were subjected to vicious and abusive handling, neglect, and miserable living conditions at Professional Laboratory and Research Services, Inc. (PLRS)—a Corapeake, North Carolina–based […]

“The ascription of moral and legal rights to animals, and their enshrinement in a United Nations Declaration of Animal Rights is a logical and inevitable progression of ethical thinking.” On December 10th 1948, the United […]

New photographs from an anonymous source have been leaked to SHAC- Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty showing shocking new images from Primate Products, Inc , a main supplier for Huntingdon Life Science’s research animals. VIEW PHOTOS […]

At a shelter in Upper Bogrov, Bulgaria, a 3 month old puppy named Jessy was skinned alive just one night before she was slated to go to her new home in Holland. This was an […]