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Dear John,

With your support enabling all of this work, Animal Wellness Action concluded the year with an extraordinary set of victories – passing the first major animal-testing bills in Congress in more than a half century, halting the sale of shark fins, stemming the trafficking of tigers and other big cats as pets, and cementing a national ban on race-day doping of Thoroughbreds in competition at tracks throughout the country.

But while we celebrate that gain, we lament that still more reforms are in the waiting. *
Nike
and
Adidas
continue
to
source
kangaroo
skins
for
soccer
cleats
even
though
the
vast
majority
of
the
shoes
from
these
manufacturing
and
marketing
giants
are
made
from
synthetics,
not
from
the
hides
of
animals
slain
in
their
native
habitats
in
the
wild.
*
Enforcement
of
our
federal
anti-cruelty
laws
is
still
porous,
with
cockfighters,
horse
show
trainers
in
the
Tennessee
Walking
horse
world,
and
puppy
mills
too
often
getting
a
free
pass
to
harm
animals
gratuitously.
*
Mink
farms
continue
to
confine
these
solitary,
semi-aquatic
mammals
in
wire
cages
and
then
kill
them
for
fur,
even
though
Americans
don’t
buy
mink
any
longer.

These problems also remind me of the connectivity between animal cruelty and larger social concerns.

Kangaroos died in extraordinary number when Australia burned three years ago — a cataclysmic climatic event that signaled that animals and humans are at risk from the effects of climate change.

When it comes to enforcing our anti-cruelty laws, we know that there’s more at stake than just animal safety. People who commit acts of malice and violence against animals often turn those violent instincts against people.

And confining wild animals on factory farms, in this case for mink production, is a prescription for the next zoonotic disease that can threaten people. There have been five mutant COVID-19 viruses already incubated by mink factory farms.

In short, our agenda remains enormous. And the work we do has never been more important for animals and people.

I hope, at the beginning of this year, that you will renew your support for Animal Wellness Action. [[link removed]]
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You give us the capacity to fight and to win. You allow us to address systemic cruelty and make our society safer and more humane.

Thank you for caring. And for not standing on the sidelines as crises unfold.

For the animals,

Wayne Pacelle
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