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Dear John,
You heard from me a good bit by email in recent weeks, asking you as the year wound to a close to reflect on what your past support has enabled us to do for millions of animals. A special thanks to you for enduring my frequent communications, and thanks also for your support in the form of advocacy and donations.
Our network of organizations is able to focus on driving animal-protection reforms seven days a week because you enable that work. You’ve allowed us to build a team of policy advocates, lawyers, veterinarians, medical doctors, communications specialists, investigators, state directors, and others who know how to take effective, game-changing actions for animals.
As we turn into the new year, I hope one resolution you’ve made is to continue your active support of our work. I am excited about what we can achieve together, and that work includes a few issues that we are on the cusp of solving.
Keeping Horses in the Stable, Not on the Table
Last week, it was reported that the last horse meat butcher in Paris hung up his carving knives. Foreign demand for parts of American horses is in a free fall, even in the isolated markets that once drove the demand for killing American horses and then sending their meat to Europe and Asia for foreign diners.
It’s in 2024 that we must convince Congress to pass the SAFE Act [[link removed]] in 2024 as an amendment to the Farm bill. The rationale for the entire ugly trade vanished long ago, and we don't need to wait for the last of the morally unaware consumers to get on board to end this grisly, un-American trade.
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Animal Fighting Is the Pits
Last month, there were two men killed execution style at an illegal dogfighting in south-central Mississippi. Earlier in the year, there were two people murdered at a cockfight in Hawaii. Crime and cruelty are built into the marrow of both dogfighting and cockfighting.
The FIGHT Act [[link removed]] in Congress would strengthen the capacity of federal law enforcement to crack down on these barbaric spectacles, making the world safer for animals and people. And the FIGHT Act would even empower average citizens, who would be able to file civil suits against known dogfighters and cockfighters if they continue with their illegal enterprise.
We must pass this bill to wipe out illegal animal fighting from Puerto Rico to Oklahoma to Hawaii and Guam.
You can help us do so by going here [[link removed]] .
Ending Greyhound Racing
Our support for a landmark ballot measure in Florida set the nation on a path to end all greyhound racing [[link removed]] in the United States. That ballot measure, which passed with a “YES” vote of 69%, shuttered 12 of the 18 operating tracks in the United States. Since then, four more tracks have closed.
The Greyhound Protection Act will shut down the last two tracks, and it also will end U.S. broadcasting of races at foreign tracks for gamblers to wager on. One of those tracks is a cartel-controlled track in Mexico. We do not want to see American gamblers unwittingly finance tracks tied to cartels. That’s why it’s so important that we close out this industry.
These are just three of more than 20 major campaigns we are conducting. But you get the point: there’s so much at stake for animals in 2024.
Go here [[link removed]] to urge your legislators to pass the Greyhound Protection Act.
Thank you for supporting us, and we look forward to collaborating with you in our relentless campaigns to protect all animals.
For the kangaroos,
Wayne Pacelle [[link removed]] Wayne Pacelle
President
Animal Wellness Action
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