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Marty Irby, Rep. Claudia Tenney, and Carole Baskin in Washington, D.C.
— Marty Irby, govt director at Animal Wellness Action
BINGHAMPTON, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES , October 19, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — Today Animal Wellness Action introduced its endorsement of U.S. Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-NY-22, in recognition of her strong advocacy for horses, canines, wildlife, and different animals vulnerable to cruelty. She’s one of many leaders on animal welfare within the U.S. House. She additionally was a frontrunner on efforts to rising viruses spawned at mink farms.
“Congresswoman Tenney has an incredible passion for animals and she has put that passion into action in the House of Representatives” mentioned Wayne Pacelle, president at Animal Wellness Action. “She’s fighting against puppy mills, horse slaughter, needless animal testing, and other abuses of animals that must be pulled up from the root.”
“Claudia Tenney is a tireless advocate for animals who continues to see success in securing the enactment of new laws to protect the voiceless we all care so deeply about,” mentioned Marty Irby, govt director at Animal Wellness Action. “We applaud Rep. Tenney’s work and hope the voters that care about animals will send her back to Washington, D.C. for another term.”
Tenney has backed quite a few animal safety measures within the U.S. House:
• Tenney is among the leaders of the MINKS Are Superspreaders Act to finish mink farming within the U.S. as mink have confirmed to be the primary superspreader of COVID apart from people and have already spawned no less than one new variant within the U.S. All 5 documented circumstances of SARS-CoV-2 variants which have unfold from animals to individuals got here from mink on manufacturing unit farms.
• Tenney is a cosponsor of the FDA Modernization Act to cease unnecessary, pricey, and inhumane animal testing. The measure lately handed the U.S. Senate and would finish animal testing mandates on the FDA by amending the 1938 statute – a Depression-era requirement for animal testing for all new drug improvement protocols, enable for different strategies when validated, and assist cut back drug prices and time to market for voters.
• Tenney was a cosponsor of the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act that was signed into regulation by President Donald J. Trump in 2019 – the primary ever anti-cruelty statute in American historical past that outlawed essentially the most egregious of animal abuses on the federal degree.
• Tenney cosponsored and voted for the Big Cat Public Safety Act that handed the House in July and would ban the personal possession of harmful large cats in addition to the follow of ‘cub petting’ that continues to gasoline overbreeding and unfunded mandates on animal rescues.
• Tenney is a cosponsor of the Prevent All Soring Tactics (PAST) Act that might amend the 1970 Horse Protection Act to finish the painful follow of soring – the intentional infliction of ache to Tennessee Walking Horses entrance limbs to induce a man-made pain-based gait generally known as the ‘Big Lick’ that’s prized at horse exhibits. The measure handed the House Energy and Commerce Committee in September.
• Tenney is a cosponsor of the Save America’s Forgotten Equines (SAFE) Act that might completely finish the slaughter of American equines on U.S. soil and the transport of equines throughout state and federal traces for that goal.
• Tenney cosponsored the Shark Fin Sales Elimination Act that might ban the commerce in shark fins within the U.S.
Animal Wellness Action is a Washington, D.C.-based 501(c)(4) group with a mission of serving to animals by selling authorized requirements forbidding cruelty. We champion causes that alleviate the struggling of companion animals, livestock, and wildlife. We advocate for insurance policies to cease dogfighting and cockfighting and different types of malicious cruelty and to confront manufacturing unit farming and different systemic types of animal exploitation. To forestall cruelty, we promote enacting good public insurance policies and we work to implement these insurance policies. To enact good legal guidelines, we should elect good lawmakers, and that’s why we remind voters which candidates care about our points and which of them don’t. We imagine serving to animals helps us all.
Marty Irby
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