Packed Like Cargo, Denied Everything: End the Transport Abuse of Billions of Animals https://www.idausa.org/campaign/farmed-animal/latest-news/packed-like-cargo-denied-everything-end-the-transport-abuse-of-billions-of-animals/
Packed Like Cargo, Denied Everything: End the Transport Abuse of Billions of Animals https://www.idausa.org/campaign/farmed-animal/latest-news/packed-like-cargo-denied-everything-end-the-transport-abuse-of-billions-of-animals/
From my favorite #animal sanctuary.
The Big Cat Public Safety Act (BCPSA) is under attack from a dangerous new bill introduced in Congress – and we urgently need your help to save this landmark protection for big cats.
Together with other sanctuaries and animal protection organizations, PAWS actively worked to help pass the BCPSA, signed into law in 2022, that shut down cruel cub petting operations and ended the private ownership of big cats.
The misleadingly named “Protecting Local Zoos Act of 2026” would open the door to:
Cruel cub petting encounters
Import and export of big cats from foreign entities
Sales of big cats by “exotic animal dealers"
H.R. 7159 does nothing for “local” zoos. Instead, the bill rewards wildlife profiteers, while sacrificing big cat welfare and public safety.
Take urgent action:
1. Call and/or send an email to your federal representative and urge them to oppose H.R. 7159. (See sample message below.) You can find your U.S. representative at https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative. Their home page should provide a phone number and link for sending your message.
Please contact your representative by Wednesday, February 4, when this bill will be heard in the Water, Wildlife, and Fisheries Subcommittee of the House Natural Resources Committee.
2. Share this alert with family, friends, and coworkers and ask them to join you in taking action. Share on social media.
3. California advocates: If Tom McClintock is your representative, it is especially important that you contact him, as he sits on the subcommittee hearing the bill. Call 202-225-2511; send your email here.
Thank you for standing up for big cats!
Sample message to copy and paste (please personalize as much as possible):
Re: Oppose H.R. 7159
I am your constituent and I care deeply about the welfare of captive big cats. I urge you to oppose H.R. 7159, misleadingly titled the “Protecting Local Zoos Act of 2026.”
This bill threatens to weaken the strongly bipartisan Big Cat Public Safety Act (BCPSA) passed in 2022 – a commonsense law that protects public safety while preventing the cruelty inherent in the big cat pet trade and “cub petting” industry.
H.R. 7159 does nothing to protect local zoos. The only limitation the BCPSA currently imposes on zoos is prohibiting direct public contact with big cats, a restriction that has not impacted standard zoo operations. Instead, H.R. 7159 would open the door to animal exploiters, allowing them to resume cruel cub petting encounters, import or export big cats from foreign entities, and sell big cats as “exotic animal dealers.”
The Big Cat Public Safety Act has already delivered results: reducing the threat of dangerous encounters involving privately owned big cats - protecting the public, law enforcement and first responders - and serving as a barrier to wildlife trafficking at our borders.
H.R. 7159 is an irresponsible rollback that would put public safety, animal welfare, and years of progress at risk. I strongly urge you to oppose this bill.
Sincerely,
[Insert name, city]
From my favorite #animal sanctuary.
The Big Cat Public Safety Act (BCPSA) is under attack from a dangerous new bill introduced in Congress – and we urgently need your help to save this landmark protection for big cats.
Together with other sanctuaries and animal protection organizations, PAWS actively worked to help pass the BCPSA, signed into law in 2022, that shut down cruel cub petting operations and ended the private ownership of big cats.
The misleadingly named “Protecting Local Zoos Act of 2026” would open the door to:
Cruel cub petting encounters
Import and export of big cats from foreign entities
Sales of big cats by “exotic animal dealers"
H.R. 7159 does nothing for “local” zoos. Instead, the bill rewards wildlife profiteers, while sacrificing big cat welfare and public safety.
Take urgent action:
1. Call and/or send an email to your federal representative and urge them to oppose H.R. 7159. (See sample message below.) You can find your U.S. representative at https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative. Their home page should provide a phone number and link for sending your message.
Please contact your representative by Wednesday, February 4, when this bill will be heard in the Water, Wildlife, and Fisheries Subcommittee of the House Natural Resources Committee.
2. Share this alert with family, friends, and coworkers and ask them to join you in taking action. Share on social media.
3. California advocates: If Tom McClintock is your representative, it is especially important that you contact him, as he sits on the subcommittee hearing the bill. Call 202-225-2511; send your email here.
Thank you for standing up for big cats!
Sample message to copy and paste (please personalize as much as possible):
Re: Oppose H.R. 7159
I am your constituent and I care deeply about the welfare of captive big cats. I urge you to oppose H.R. 7159, misleadingly titled the “Protecting Local Zoos Act of 2026.”
This bill threatens to weaken the strongly bipartisan Big Cat Public Safety Act (BCPSA) passed in 2022 – a commonsense law that protects public safety while preventing the cruelty inherent in the big cat pet trade and “cub petting” industry.
H.R. 7159 does nothing to protect local zoos. The only limitation the BCPSA currently imposes on zoos is prohibiting direct public contact with big cats, a restriction that has not impacted standard zoo operations. Instead, H.R. 7159 would open the door to animal exploiters, allowing them to resume cruel cub petting encounters, import or export big cats from foreign entities, and sell big cats as “exotic animal dealers.”
The Big Cat Public Safety Act has already delivered results: reducing the threat of dangerous encounters involving privately owned big cats - protecting the public, law enforcement and first responders - and serving as a barrier to wildlife trafficking at our borders.
H.R. 7159 is an irresponsible rollback that would put public safety, animal welfare, and years of progress at risk. I strongly urge you to oppose this bill.
Sincerely,
[Insert name, city]
Today in Labor History January 26. 1682: Benjamin Lay was born in England. Lay emigrated to the Provine of Pennsylvania, in British North America, where he became a radical Quaker activist against slavery, and for the rights of women and animals. He was a prolific writer on abolition and his “All Slave-Keepers that Keep the Innocent in Bondage” was one of the first abolitionist works published in the 13 Colonies. In an act of protest, he once stood outside a Quaker meeting in the middle of winter, barefoot, and without any coat. When passersby expressed concern for his health, he asked why they were not concerned for the health of the slaves, who were forced to work in the snow dressed as he was. He also once kidnapped the child of slaveholders temporarily to demonstrate to them how it felt when one’s relatives were stolen and sold. In another act of protest, this time in front of his Quaker brethren, he quoted the Bible saying that all men should be equal under God, and then plunged a sword into a Bible containing a bladder of blood-red pokeberry juice, which spattered over those nearby. He refused to consume any products made from slave labor. He was a vegetarian. He was roughly four feet tall, with a hunchback. He referred to himself as “Little Benjamin.” During the 2012 Occupy Movement, the Occupy encampment in Jenkintown, PA, where Lay was buried, activists renamed the town square as “Benjamin Lay Plaza.”
#workingclass #LaborHistory #benjaminlay #slavery #abolition #racism #quakers #civildisobedience #directaction #feminism #animalrights #occupy
Today in Labor History January 26. 1682: Benjamin Lay was born in England. Lay emigrated to the Provine of Pennsylvania, in British North America, where he became a radical Quaker activist against slavery, and for the rights of women and animals. He was a prolific writer on abolition and his “All Slave-Keepers that Keep the Innocent in Bondage” was one of the first abolitionist works published in the 13 Colonies. In an act of protest, he once stood outside a Quaker meeting in the middle of winter, barefoot, and without any coat. When passersby expressed concern for his health, he asked why they were not concerned for the health of the slaves, who were forced to work in the snow dressed as he was. He also once kidnapped the child of slaveholders temporarily to demonstrate to them how it felt when one’s relatives were stolen and sold. In another act of protest, this time in front of his Quaker brethren, he quoted the Bible saying that all men should be equal under God, and then plunged a sword into a Bible containing a bladder of blood-red pokeberry juice, which spattered over those nearby. He refused to consume any products made from slave labor. He was a vegetarian. He was roughly four feet tall, with a hunchback. He referred to himself as “Little Benjamin.” During the 2012 Occupy Movement, the Occupy encampment in Jenkintown, PA, where Lay was buried, activists renamed the town square as “Benjamin Lay Plaza.”
#workingclass #LaborHistory #benjaminlay #slavery #abolition #racism #quakers #civildisobedience #directaction #feminism #animalrights #occupy
"Uit onderzoek blijkt dat het vlees [spierweefsel van kalveren, red.] vaak uit Nederland komt en hier wordt geproduceerd onder omstandigheden die in Oostenrijk verboden zijn."
De drogreden dat geïndustrialiseerde dieren 'in Nederland een beter leven hebben dan in het buitenland' is daarmee definitief afgeserveerd.
#AnimalRights #Dierenrechten #EmptyTheCages #StopEatingAnimals #GoVegan #Veganuary
Seantience invites you to discover the complex inner lives of the planet's most overlooked aquatic animals. From shrimp to octopuses, science reveals that their capacity to feel goes far beyond what you might imagine.
🏆 Previously awarded Best Cinematography at FICAA and selected for SUNCINE International Festival
🎥 Directed by Xiana Castro
🎬 Produced by Animal Ethics
Watch it here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfpuhKMN9Vs&t=23s
#Seantience #Sentience #FishWelfare #AnimalEthics #Documentary #AnimalRights #Vegan
Seantience invites you to discover the complex inner lives of the planet's most overlooked aquatic animals. From shrimp to octopuses, science reveals that their capacity to feel goes far beyond what you might imagine.
🏆 Previously awarded Best Cinematography at FICAA and selected for SUNCINE International Festival
🎥 Directed by Xiana Castro
🎬 Produced by Animal Ethics
Watch it here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfpuhKMN9Vs&t=23s
#Seantience #Sentience #FishWelfare #AnimalEthics #Documentary #AnimalRights #Vegan
"Uit onderzoek blijkt dat het vlees [spierweefsel van kalveren, red.] vaak uit Nederland komt en hier wordt geproduceerd onder omstandigheden die in Oostenrijk verboden zijn."
De drogreden dat geïndustrialiseerde dieren 'in Nederland een beter leven hebben dan in het buitenland' is daarmee definitief afgeserveerd.
#AnimalRights #Dierenrechten #EmptyTheCages #StopEatingAnimals #GoVegan #Veganuary
It's the first #Vegan market of the year in #Sherwood, #Nottingham this coming Saturday:
http://nottinghamveganmarket.uk/sherwood-vegan-market-saturday-10th-january-2026/
🍔 🍟 🍕 🌭 🍄🧆 🥙 🍵 ☕️ 🧁 🍰
At the market, I picked up a leaflet abut #AnimalHorizon, a #vegan group I had not heard of before.
They have a meeting at the same location in #Sherwood, #Nottingham, about:
- Animals
- The Planet
- Your Health
- Our Future
https://animalhorizon.org/live/
The first meeting is on the 17th January at 6.15pm onwards.
If you eat animals, you don't love them. You cuddle your friends, you don't murder them or have them murdered. #vegan #veganism #veganuary #veganlife #veganfood #animalwelfare #animalrights #food #friendsnotfood #diet #activism
If you eat animals, you don't love them. You cuddle your friends, you don't murder them or have them murdered. #vegan #veganism #veganuary #veganlife #veganfood #animalwelfare #animalrights #food #friendsnotfood #diet #activism
Dead-animal-eaters should stop blaming vegans for what they themselves cause! #vegan #veganism #veganuary #veganlife #veganfood #animalwelfare #animalrights #food #friendsnotfood #diet #activism
Pigs are actually very clean animals and they're commonly not very aggressive. They can be very good friends and are definitely not food. #vegan #veganism #pig #pigs #boar #piglet #veganuary #vegetarian #activism #animalrights #comic #comedy #humour
Dead-animal-eaters should stop blaming vegans for what they themselves cause! #vegan #veganism #veganuary #veganlife #veganfood #animalwelfare #animalrights #food #friendsnotfood #diet #activism
Pigs are actually very clean animals and they're commonly not very aggressive. They can be very good friends and are definitely not food. #vegan #veganism #pig #pigs #boar #piglet #veganuary #vegetarian #activism #animalrights #comic #comedy #humour
Remembering the day, back in 2017, when my neighbor told me that being Vegan is very unhealthy, just one day after I finished my second marathon. 🤷♂️
I just entered my 32nd year of veganism.
#Vegan #AnimalRights #CrueltyFree
We destroyed their homes and then condemn them for wandering into spaces we call our home. 🤯 Protect their forests, their homes, their right to exist. 🙏 #animalrights #wildlife #deer #wildanimals #animals
We destroyed their homes and then condemn them for wandering into spaces we call our home. 🤯 Protect their forests, their homes, their right to exist. 🙏 #animalrights #wildlife #deer #wildanimals #animals
