US Spending Package Delivers Wins for Animals
Narrowly averting a government shutdown, Congress adopted a $460 billion spending package in March that included multiple wins for animals. Among them: prohibiting the US Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services program from using chemical poison devices such as M-44 “cyanide bombs” and Compound 1080 for predator control; blocking horse slaughter facilities from operating in the United States; expressing concern about mink farms as potential sources of zoonotic diseases such as COVID-19 and avian influenza; directing the USDA to work with producers to develop disaster preparedness plans covering farmed animals; funding grants to assist domestic violence survivors who have pets; and defeating amendments that would have threatened the survival of two of the world’s most endangered whales: the North Atlantic right whale and Rice’s whale.
Program Terms: Farmed Animals, Marine Wildlife, Terrestrial Wildlife
AWI Quarterly Terms: Government/Legal, Quick Read
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