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Wayne Pacelle: A Humane Nation
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Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of The Humane Society of the United States, blogs daily at A Humane Nation about the most pressing issues facing animals and ways you can get involved with animal protection and The HSUS.
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HSUS 2011 Annual Report Released Here

We’ve just released our 2011 annual report online highlighting our activities and accomplishments during that year. Illustrated with a new infographic, the report shows why there’s no animal protecti...

23 h ago

Help Our Feathered Friends: Hen Bill Introduced in U.S. Senate

Today, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, along with a number of colleagues from both parties, introduced S. 3239, the Senate companion to H.R. 3798―the bill to codify the agreement between The HSUS and the Unit...

5 days ago

News on Exotic Animals, Horse Soring, and Hounding of Bears and Bobcats

There’s major news on three fronts where The HSUS has been demanding reform and new protections for animals. More specifically, in all three cases we are seeing substantial progress and newfound awar...

6 days ago

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 mills selling pets online, by phone, or by mail to be...

23 may 12

Abuses Are Rampant in Tennessee Walking Horse Industry

Shelbyville Farm Center division manager Joe Green, Sr. told The Tennessean, in a story published today, that last Wednesday night’s report on ABC’s Nightline exposing illegal training practices with...

21 may 12

Shortly After Cruelty Allegations, Tyson Foods Calls for Pizza Party

After first denying connection to the factory farm, Tyson Foods severed its relationship with Wyoming Premium Farms after an HSUS investigation documented appalling cruelty to pigs. A spokesman for t...

19 may 12

Investigative Video Shows Culture of Cruelty in Walking Horse Industry

Today, HSUS representatives are in Tennessee to release a powerful undercover investigation video that exposes animal abuse in the Tennessee walking horse industry, as practiced by one of its most in...

17 may 12

HSUS Breaks Investigation Today of Nation’s Largest Exotic Animal Owner

With the Congress and the state of Ohio considering bills to restrict private ownership of dangerous exotic animals, CBS This Morning broke news of another HSUS undercover investigation―this one focu...

16 may 12

Could Pork Become the New Veal?

The HSUS and Denny’s today announced that this popular restaurant chain―with annual sales of more than half a billion dollars and more than 1,600 restaurants―will take immediate steps to get gestatio...

15 may 12

A Wing and a Prayer: Rescuing More than 100 Parrots

Our Animal Rescue Team works with local law enforcement and humane agencies to help and rescue animals in distress, whether from puppy mills, animal fighting rings, natural disasters, or other cruelt...

14 may 12

Investigation Exposing Cruelty at Tyson Pig Supplier Stirs Outrage, Response

This week, we announced our latest agribusiness undercover investigation—the fourth factory farm investigation The HSUS has released in 2012 alone. The response to the sickening cruelty we documented...

11 may 12

Our Big Chance to Stick up for Puppies

We’ve conducted dozens of raids with law enforcement to rescue dogs in distress at puppy mills. There are so many stories of woe―and then redemption. But one that sticks in my mind is Rudy the dachsh...

10 may 12

Woof! Your Captions for Sutter the Corgi

Last week, I shared the story of a California corgi on a road trip to spread the word about spaying and neutering. California Gov. Jerry Brown’s dog, Sutter, traveled with our senior state director J...

09 may 12

Abhorrent Abuse of Mother Pigs and Piglets Uncovered at Tyson Foods Supplier

[Please note: Includes graphic descriptions of animal abuse.] The HSUSTake action to help pigs today. Time and again, The HSUS’s undercover investigators have exposed appalling abuses of animals―at a...

08 may 12

Stop the Killing of Wildlife with Americans’ Tax Dollars

At The HSUS, we believe that there must be standards of behavior enshrined in the law, since there are people who would otherwise choose to take advantage of animals and exploit them for profit and o...

07 may 12

Baby Foxes Saved from Path of Construction (Video)

Whether we realize or not, wild animals are all around us. Wildlife face threats every day from human development, roads, vehicles, and intolerant or poorly informed property owners―as well as abusiv...

04 may 12

Tune in for a Star-Studded Celebration for Animals

Each year, The HSUS hosts The Genesis Awards to recognize journalists in the news business and producers and directors in the entertainment industry for their contribution to building awareness of an...

03 may 12

Caption Contest: California’s First Dog Hits the Road

Today Jennifer Fearing, The HSUS’s California senior state director, is heading to Los Angeles with a very special passenger: a Welsh corgi named Sutter, the dog of Gov. Jerry Brown. Sutter is a popu...

02 may 12

They’re Back

The state of Ohio announced yesterday that Marian Thompson will get back the five wild animals who escaped the massacre after her unhinged husband set free dozens of other animals in Zanesville last ...

01 may 12

In the News: Horse Racing and the Federal Government’s Wildlife-Killing Program

A big part of The HSUS’s enterprise of helping all animals is to carry out research and investigations and to shine a light on cruel and unacceptable practices, as a precursor to driving substantive ...

30 apr 12

Animal Issues Hanging in the Balance

This was a week filled with major news at The HSUS, with some pivotal decisions and progress. - On the programmatic front, the big news was Burger King’s announcement, which I broke on MSNBC’s Mornin...

27 apr 12

Burger King Leads the Charge for Better Animal Welfare

Minutes ago, I broke the news on MSNBC’s Morning Joe that The HSUS and Burger King are jointly announcing that the world’s second-largest fast food burger chain will eliminate both battery cages and ...

25 apr 12

Help Us End Animal Testing for Cosmetics Worldwide

Was the shampoo you used this morning tested on rabbits or other animals? What about your lipstick? Wouldn’t it be nice to shop care-free, knowing that every cosmetic product produced and sold—not on...

24 apr 12

Remembering John Hoyt, a Leader for Animal Protection

Since its founding in 1954, The HSUS has had just six chief executive officers―and that stability at the top has been a key factor in the organization’s sustained growth, program achievements, and in...

23 apr 12

Defenders of Cruelty Distort the Truth

In our field, we are used to seeing the defenders of cruelty go to great lengths to obscure the facts, to justify their misconduct, or to turn black into white. As it happened, this trait was on disp...

20 apr 12

First-Quarter Blog Favorites: Progress for Farm Animals, Horses, and More

Now that we are nearly three weeks past the first quarter of 2012, I thought I’d give you a list of the top 10 blogs of the period, the ones you read and remarked upon the most. Not surprisingly, the...

19 apr 12

Time for Trapping Reform in Oregon

More than a decade ago, voters in Oregon rejected a ballot measure to restrict the use of steel-jawed leghold traps and other body-crushing traps, largely because the trapping and hunting lobby convi...

18 apr 12

Pioneering Higher Education for Animals

There may be 50,000 paid professionals working in the animal protection field in the United States, and millions more people advocating for animals in their daily lives. Yet for them, there’s often n...

17 apr 12

Ask Congress to Shoot Down Dangerous Wildlife Proposal

One of the best-known truths in American politics that’s evident in the news cycle in recent days is that a majority of the Congress is in the hip pocket of the NRA. Quite often, this means that good...

16 apr 12

Spreading the Word on Animal Protection Issues on The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Yesterday, I taped a segment on the Ellen DeGeneres Show about animal protection issues and the paperback launch of my book, The Bond: Our Kinship With Animals, Our Call to Defend Them. We closed the...

13 apr 12

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