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​[link removed] [[link removed]]Dear friend,

Since inception, Animal Wellness Action has zeroed in on two macro-level goals: establishing legal protections for animals and driving enforcement of those legal standards. In our relationship with animals, human beings have all the power, and legal standards must be in place to shield animals from people acting with disregard or malice.

Today, I am providing you online access to the 2023 Animal Wellness Action Annual Report [[link removed]] . When you invest in a private company and buy its stock, you expect a return on your investment. You should expect the same from a non-profit. I hope you’ll take a look at it and see what your support has enabled in the way of anti-cruelty work in our society.

Last year was such a consequential year for farm animal protection. We worked very hard to win support from the U.S. Supreme Court on a critical case dealing with a California law (Prop 12) that restricts extreme confinement of pigs, laying hens, and veal calves on factory farms. The high court’s ruling that Prop 12 was constitutional enables us to continue our work at the state level to halt commerce in animals tied to extreme and cruel practices.

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And also in 2023, we were proud to have given a lift to the first-ever farm-animal standards under the “organic seal.” These new USDA standards provide legal protection for 60 million farm animals, and that number may swell in the years ahead as consumers become more conscious and alert to food choices.

Last year was certainly the most important year in our ongoing four-year Kangaroos Are Not Shoes [[link removed]] campaign. Partly with the pressure applied in our legislative campaigns, Nike, Puma, and then New Balance pledged that 2023 would be their last year to support the open-air killing of kangaroos by commercial shooters. Adidas, based in Germany, remains the only major athletic shoe manufacturer still actively driving the killing of kangaroos in their native habitats.

Also in 2023, we built major momentum in our serious-minded efforts to close out industries that have been with us for longer than any of us have lived: horse slaughter for human consumption, greyhound racing for gambling, and dogfighting and cockfighting for the thrill of the bloodletting.

At the very end of 2022, we passed the landmark FDA Modernization Act 2.0, eliminating an 84-year-old animal-testing mandate in the law for screening new medicines and other drugs. In 2023, we saw that the FDA was lagging in implementing the law, and in 2023 we put a new campaign in motion to apply the law. Our goal is to phase out testing on tens of thousands of beagles and primates and hundreds of thousands of other animals, and to replace those tests with more reliable and effective human-biology-based testing methods.

There’s so much to our work. It’s hard. And it’s complex. We are pressing ahead with important campaigns such as Get the Lead Out [[link removed]] (transitioning away from toxic lead ammunition in sport hunting) and ReThink Mink [[link removed]] (to end the rearing and killing of mink for use as fur coats or other garments).

And we are always taking on new battles, such as working to stop the federal government from slaughtering barred owls in the Pacific Northwest and ending live pigeon shoots in states like Florida, Georgia, and Pennsylvania.

In general, wherever animals are threatened on a large scale by cruel means, we will answer the call. In every case where we launch a campaign, we execute plans to win. And throughout the travails and battles, you’ve been there to enable it all. Without you, none of this work happens.

I hope you’ll continue to invest in this work. It is work that reduces risks for millions and even billions of animals, and the yield on your investment could not be bigger.

With the utmost respect, I thank you so much for being part of this kind of major societal change for animals.

Sincerely,

Wayne Pacelle [[link removed]] Wayne Pacelle
President
Animal Wellness Action
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