Wisconsin Animal & Environment Protection Coalition

16/04/2025

15/04/2025

🔥 Over the next 46 hours, WI citizens are able to give their input via an online survey to the DNR & WIsconsin Conservation Congress.

Participation in the WCC Spring Survey is a powerful way to contribute to the stewardship of Wisconsin’s natural resources and also affect ANIMAL PROTECTION.

04/04/2025

In Wisconsin, A BEAGLE DOG Factory Farm breeding and warehousing beagles for medical experimentation has been allowed to operate since 1966 where at any given time, 3000+ beagles languish, suffer and experiencing abuse.
With your help, we can shut this down and end medical experimentation on Dogs in the US.

“ It found that in one NIH-funded study conducted from 2020 to 2021 by the IIT Research Institute, 38 dogs purchased from Ridglan Farms, some as young as five months old, were forced to inhale an experimental compound through a facemask for up to 60 minutes at a time and as frequently as twice daily for two weeks. At the experiment’s end, the dogs were all killed.”

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As Ridglan Farms faces probes for alleged animal abuse, some customers stop doing business with the Dane County dog breeding and research facility.

27/03/2025

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27/03/2025

“Increased line speeds will hurt workers – it’s not a maybe, it’s a definite – and increased production speeds will jeopardize the health and safety of every American that eats chicken,” said Stuart Appelbaum, president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, which represents over 15,000 poultry workers at facilities across the southern United States.

Take a seat in the Break Room, our weekly roundup of labor news in Minnesota and beyond. This week: USDA allows higher line speeds at meat processing plants; illegally fired federal workers get called back with more layoffs looming; 630 mine workers laid off on Iron Range; and 120 nursing home worke...

24/03/2025

Horrific abusive Beagle factory farm in WI referenced and highlighting all of the groups and individuals that came together to expose this place warehousing over 3000 beagle Dogs to be sent for medical experimentation. Yes, in the United States it’s still legal to test on our dog companions! Follow Dane4Dogs and The Marty Project

They have been bred for centuries to be our friends. We should not use them for painful experiments.

20/03/2025

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15/03/2025

Cloning, genetically modifying and sacrificing pigs in an undisclosed location in Wisconsin as “potential organ donors” instead of encouraging and incentivizing more human donors. 😭😭

Some scientists are confident that organs from genetically modified pigs will one day be routinely transplanted into humans. But substantial ethical questions remain.

14/03/2025

90 ducks in WI died. Avian Flu ruled out. Spores from Agricultural moldy piles killed them. 🥲

LITTLE CHUTE, Wis. (WFRV) – After 90 dead ducks were removed from a stormwater pond in Little Chute in late February, officials with the Wisconsin DNR have confirmed that it was not due to bi…

11/03/2025

This variant, Dr. Konkle explained, is predominant in wild birds and poultry.

“To date, the CDC has identified 70 human cases of avian influenza in the U.S., “forty-one of which,” Dr. Konkle said, “were through contact with dairy cattle.” Last December, a poultry worker at a turkey facility in Wisconsin became ill, recovered from the infection.”

The H5N1 virus has “more than one way to move around,” she told attendees. “This virus is an opportunist,”
“We’re coming up on the time of year where we’ll be at high risk in Wisconsin. Ice is melting, snow is melting, and birds are migrating.” Indeed, the two largest bird flu outbreaks in Jefferson County occurred in March (2022) and April (2015), the latter involving H5N2 rather than the current H5N1 virus.”

Bobcat probable bird flu fatalityAs the month of March unfolds, avian influenza outbreaks continue in birds, dairy cattle, and mammals, hitting close to home recently. A bobcat found ill in

09/03/2025

https://sraproject.org/water-rangers/

This program trains communities to protect their right to clean water and to hold industrial livestock operations accountable for pollution.

09/03/2025

In Wisconsin.
Hunters .. to date, the natural resources department has paid nearly $1 million for killed dogs, as well as thousands more dollars to help owners cover veterinary bills for injured dogs. That’s partly because hunting dogs are one of the most valuable animals eligible for such reimbursements, Koele says.

“State-sanctioned dogfighting”—that’s how Kerry Beheler, a scientist who performed wolf necropsies for the natural resources department for 14 years, describes the payment policy. She says it also rewards hunters who allow—or even encourage—their dogs to fight with wolves, because they know they can apply for compensation.

The number of payouts—“usually in excess of 20” a year—and the fact that there are “repeat claimants” seems suspicious, says Paul Collins, Wisconsin state director for the nonprofit Animal Wellness Action. “It’s basically become a free-for-all.”

Many states compensate farmers for livestock preyed on by wolves. Only Wisconsin also pays hunters for attacks on their dogs, a 1970s policy that continues today.

04/03/2025

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On Friday, a judge issued an order preventing Enbridge from moving forward with any pipeline-related construction activities while our legal challenge is pending. Learn more here >>> https://midwestadvocates.org/legal-win-judge-orders-pause-on-line-5-pipeline-construction-to-prevent-significant-adverse-impacts-to-the-environment 350 Wisconsin League of Women Voters of Wisconsin Sierra Club Wisconsin

02/03/2025

“Well, over the course of the last month with the new administration, we have to understand that, you know, there may be some downtime in terms of responding, as there would be with any change in administration. But we're also concerned that we're seeing these dramatic cuts that are occurring that are pretty indiscriminate, more of a machete approach than a surgical knife, and with that, they are taking people who are critical to responding to this kind of activity and what they can do. We're also seeing right now the potential impact on research funding. The NIH may have to change how much money they provide universities to support basic research, which if that were to happen, it would be really a major research disaster in this country.”

Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy Director Michael Osterholm considers the status of H5N1 bird flu in wild flocks and commercial poultry amid concerns over its spread among humans.

01/03/2025

Excellent series by Vox.
Future Perfect, Vox’s section dedicated to solving the world’s most important yet neglected problems, obsessively covers how the way we eat affects our lives and our planet. For the last year, we’ve been working hard on a special series of ambitious, deeply reported feature stories and investigations on the history of the meat and dairy industries, their political and cultural influence, and their sweeping impacts on American life, particularly in the Midwest, where factory farms are disproportionately concentrated.

The pharmaceutical industry helped build factory farming. Now it’s muddying the debate over meat’s carbon footprint.

28/02/2025

Stop Congress's Attack on Wolves and the Endangered Species Act!
Urge your Representative to Oppose H.R. 845!
The war on wolves is escalating in Congress, and they urgently need your voice!
U.S. House Representatives Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and Tom Tiffany (R-WI) have introduced a bill H.R. 845, that would strip wolves of their vital federal protections under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Even worse, the bill would block judicial review, preventing any legal challenges to this harmful and destructive legislation. Tell your Representatives to vote NO on H.R. 845!

https://projectcoyote.org/stop-congresss-attack-on-wolves-and-the-endangered-species-act/?

Bill H.R. 845 would strip wolves of their vital federal protections under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Tell your Representatives to vote NO on H.R. 845!

25/02/2025

https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/02/24/amid-trumps-threats-to-deport-workers-wisconsin-dairy-farmers-travel-to-mexico/

Every year, Midwestern dairy farmers visits their workers' families in Mexico; the two groups of rural people are deeply intertwined