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Dear John,

In the animal welfare movement, few organizations are structured and organized to drive reforms to shield animals from cruelty under the law.

Animal Wellness Action is not only one of them, but it is the nation’s premier political advocacy group.

We work to 1) heighten the profile of animal protection in American politics, 2) drive the passage of laws and regulations to benefit animals, and 3) promote enforcement of those legal standards.

Today, I link to the 2022 Animal Wellness Action Annual Report [[link removed]] , which highlights a series of major wins we helped to secure for animals last year, after making a thousand maneuvers on each bill in 2021 and 2022. *
FDA
Modernization
Act
and
the
Reducing
Animal
Testing
Act
—
to
eliminate
a
federal
mandates
for
animal
testing
for
new
drugs
and
for
biosimilars.
*
Big
Cat
Public
Safety
Act
—
to
shut
the
door
on
the
trade
in
big
cats
as
pets
and
to
halt
commercial
petting
opportunities.
*
Shark
Fin
Sales
Elimination
Act
—
to
halt
the
trade
in
fins
for
soup.
*
A
fix
of
the
Horseracing
Integrity
and
Safety
Act
—
to
revive
anti-doping
rules
in
Thoroughbred
racing.


That’s a burst of hugely significant lawmaking for animals, tackling several of the biggest problems that exist for animals.

But I’ll tell you that we didn’t waste a day before we developed an extraordinarily ambitious agenda for political reforms for animals for 2023, too: *
Fighting
Inhumane
Gambling
and
High-Risk
Trafficking
Act
—
to
crack
down
on
dogfighting
and
cockfighting
in
dramatic
ways.
*
Saving
Our
Forgotten
American
Equines
Act
—
to
ban,
once
and
for
all,
the
live
exports
of
American
horses
to
Mexico
and
Canada
for
slaughter
for
human
consumption.
*
Greyhound
Protection
Act
—
to
ban
gambling
and
simulcasting
on
greyhound
races
and
to
close
out
an
industry
that
has
harmed
so
many
dogs.
*
Preventing
All
Soring
Tactics
Act
compromise
—
to
make
it
a
federal
felony
to
engage
in
“horse
soring”
(the
injuring
of
the
feet
and
lower
legs
of
Tennessee
Walking
Horses
to
cause
them
to
exaggerate
their
gait
for
horse
show
performances).
*
SMARTER
Act
—
to
create
a
new
national
center
at
the
National
Institutes
of
Health
to
develop
alternatives
to
animal
testing.
*
ADD
SOY
Act
—
to
eliminate
the
“milk
mandate”
in
the
National
School
Lunch
Program,
provide
choice
for
kids,
and
scale
down
factory
farming
of
dairy
cows.


And there are many other bills, regulatory actions, and corporate efforts we are undertaking on top of those efforts.

In short, when you support our work, you enable us to take on the biggest problems for animals.

I hope you’ll look back at what we did in 2022 as a measure of our performance and ability and also look ahead with us to see our unrelenting yet strategic approach to continuing reforms for animals.

Most of all, we hope you’ll invest in our vision for a safer, more humane world for all animals.

Please donate what you can to enable this game-changing work. There’s no work that’s more important for animals. [[link removed]]
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For the animals,
Wayne Pacelle [[link removed]] Wayne Pacelle
President
Animal Wellness Action
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