Rep. Vern Buchanan, Marty Irby, President Donald Trump, and others on the signing of the PACT Act in November of 2019
— Marty Irby, govt director at Animal Wellness Action
BRADENTON, FLORIDA, UNITED STATES , October 19, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — Today Animal Wellness Action introduced its endorsement of U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Fla., due to his excellent advocacy on animal welfare points, together with his efforts to finish horse slaughter and repeal animal testing mandates on the FDA.
“Congressman Buchanan takes on the biggest animal welfare problems in the nation and typically he gets his reform measures over the finish line,” stated Wayne Pacelle, president at Animal Wellness Action. “He is the architect of the federal anti-cruelty law, and now he’s on the cusp of passing a measure to dramatically reduce numbers of dogs and primates used in needless, painful, and scientifically suspect testing on animals in the laboratory.”
“Vern Buchanan 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,” stated Marty Irby, govt director at Animal Wellness Action. “We applaud Vern’s work and hope the voters that care about animals will send him back to Washington, D.C. for another term.”
Buchanan has been a pacesetter on quite a few animal safety measures within the U.S. House:
• Buchanan is main the FDA Modernization Act to cease pointless, expensive, and inhumane animal testing. The measure not too long ago 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 various strategies when validated, and assist cut back drug prices and time to market for voters.
• Buchanan was one of many leaders of the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act that was signed into legislation 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 stage.
• Buchanan is without doubt one of the leaders of the Prevent All Soring Tactics (PAST) Act that may 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 synthetic pain-based gait often called the ‘Big Lick’ that’s prized at horse reveals. The measure handed the House Energy and Commerce Committee in September.
• Buchanan is without doubt one of the leaders of the Save America’s Forgotten Equines (SAFE) Act that may completely finish the slaughter of American equines on U.S. soil and the transport of equines throughout state and federal traces for that function.
• Buchanan is main the Manatee Protection Act to relist Florida manatees as an endangered species.
Buchanan has cosponsored and backed a broad vary of different vital reforms:
• Buchanan 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. He is also co-lead of the Captive Primate Safety Act to halt the commerce in primates as pets.
• Buchanan joined as a authentic cosponsor 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 moreover people and have already spawned a minimum of one new variant within the U.S.
•Buchanan joined as an authentic cosponsor of the Greyhound Protection Act that may finish the archaic follow of Greyhound racing within the U.S.
• Buchanan joined a letter to the U.S. Postal Service Inspector calling on the Inspector to crackdown towards unlawful animal combating shipments to Guam and different nations all through the world. Dogfighting and cockfighting, are sometimes certain up with unlawful playing, narcotics trafficking, and human-on-humane violence.
• Buchanan cosponsored the Shark Fin Sales Elimination Act that may 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, cattle, and wildlife. We advocate for insurance policies to cease dogfighting and cockfighting and different types of malicious cruelty and to confront manufacturing facility farming and different systemic types of animal exploitation. To stop 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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