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Dear John,The national election concludes in just a few days, with tens of millions of votes already cast but millions more to come by Tuesday.

It's not just in the run-up to an election that we must pay attention to how lawmakers handle animal protection. We want all lawmakers, regardless of political party, to understand that opposing animal cruelty is a moral priority for the nation every day of the year.

When it comes to driving awareness of the national priorities for animal protection, we don’t think it’s any exaggeration to say that Animal Wellness Action is perhaps the most pivotal player in making sure that federal lawmakers pay attention to animal protection.

Here are just a few of the laws we’ve helped push over the finish line in the two prior Congresses.

*
The
Parity
in
Animal
Cruelty
Enforcement
(PACE)
Act
—
to
ban
cockfighting
and
dogfighting
everywhere
in
the
United
States,
including
in
the
five
major
U.S.
territories.
*
The
Preventing
Animal
Cruelty
and
Torture
(PACT)
Act
—
to
create,
for
the
first
time
ever,
a
federal
anti-cruelty
statute.
*
The
Dog
and
Cat
Meat
Trade
Prohibition
Act
—
a
measure
to
ban
any
sale
of
dog
and
cat
meat
in
the
United
States.
*
The
Horseracing
Integrity
and
Safety
Act
(HISA)
—
to
ban
race-day
doping
of
Thoroughbred
horses.

In recent months, we’ve worked to introduce, or prepared for introduction, 10 new bills in Congress, remaking the national agenda for animal welfare with these offerings. Here are just a few of our federal legislative initiatives:

*
The
FDA
Modernization
Act
—
to
eliminate
the
requirement
for
animal
testing
for
all
new
drug
development
protocols.
*
The
MINKS
Are
Superspreaders
Act
—
to
phase
out
mink
farming
in
the
United
States,
after
these
factory
farms
spawned
SARS-CoV-2
mutations.
*
The
Bear
Poaching
Elimination
Act
—
to
curb
the
mass
poaching
of
bears
by
banning
the
trade
in
bear
gall
bladders
and
bile
for
Traditional
Chinese
Medicine.
*
The
Pigs
in
Gestation
States
(PIGS)
Act
—
to
ban
the
use
of
confinement
cages
known
as
gestation
crates
that
don’t
even
allow
animals
to
turn
around
on
factory
farms.
*
The
Kangaroo
Protection
Act
—
to
halt
any
trade
in
the
United
States
in
kangaroo
parts,
as
a
way
of
getting
Nike,
Adidas,
and
other
athletic
shoe
companies
to
stop
using
these
skins
in
soccer
cleats
that
drive
the
killing
of
2
million
kangaroos
a
year.
*
The
Animal
Cruelty
Enforcement
(ACE)
Act
—
to
create
a
new
Animal
Cruelty
Crimes
section
at
the
U.S.
Department
of
Justice.

At the same time, we are working to get two other bills, with an older vintage, over the finish line:

*
The
Big
Cat
Public
Safety
Act
would
shut
the
door
on
the
trade
in
big
cats
as
pets
or
as
props
in
commercial
cub
petting
operations.
*
The
Shark
Fin
Sales
Elimination
Act
would
halt
the
trade
in
fins
for
soup.

This is an incredible legislative agenda, and there’s much more to it than what we’ve identified above. [[link removed]]

Last week, we released our Animal Wellness Scorecard for the 117th Congress. I hope you will take a look and see how your lawmakers are performing on animal issues. You can access it on our website at: [link removed] [[link removed]]

Please vote in this election and make an informed choice, factoring in the performance of lawmakers on animal issues.

But don’t treat politics as a once-a-year exercise. Write and call your lawmakers, see them at town halls, write letters to the editor.

And most of all, put Animal Wellness Action to work every day driving the agenda for animals and working with us to make these priorities concerns in our society.

Lawmakers will only make animal issues a priority if they work with strategic groups like Animal Wellness Action and if they know their constituents back home care.

More than ever, we need your support to manage this remarkable legislative agenda. Please give today to support our wide-ranging work that improves the lives of countless millions of animals. [[link removed]]

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And please know that we’ll only be able to drive a major agenda to stop cruelty if we join together in this fight.

Wayne Pacelle Marty Irby
President Executive Director



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