April 10th, 2013
| Raleigh, N.C. — A bill filed by a bipartisan group of House lawmakers would make it a crime to leave pets unattended in a car in hot or cold conditions and would give law enforcement the authority to take action to save them. Read more |
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July 31st, 2012
NCVAW is compiling a list humane candidates to endorse.
Please help us by contacting your Senator and House Representative.
When you get a reply please email us. Once we get this information we will share it with so you know who to vote for in November 2012!
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July 3rd, 2012
| GREENSBORO — Animal rights activists in North Carolina are making history this week, as they form the state’s first-ever political action committee for animal welfare.
The group hopes to make its voice heard in our state’s capital, creating tougher laws to protect pets, and financially backing legislators who work to prevent animal cruelty. Watch Video from Carolina News 14 |
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May 25th, 2012
It is with great excitement that we would like to announce the very first North Carolina Animal Welfare Political Action Committee! North Carolina Voters for Animal Welfare has a PAC in place and we are ready to accept contributions from animal lovers that want to promote responsible care for all animals in our legislature. We will use your generous donation to support legislators that support our issues and also to help candidates that would be an asset to our General Assembly.Please click on the link below and make a contribution today.
We need your help to get started! Donations will go to legislators that support our issues and would be an asset to our General Assembly. It is an election year and we have to take a stand for our animals!
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February 14th, 2012
| COLUMBUS COUNTY, NC (WECT) - A hog farm in Columbus County was ordered to pay $1.5 million in fines, restitution and community service payments for violations to the federal Clean Water Act. The president of the farm will also serve time in prison. Read more |
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January 5th, 2012
| Sustainable farming is a way of raising food that is healthy for consumers and animals, does not harm the environment, is humane for workers, respects animals, provides a fair wage to the farmer, and supports and enhances rural communities.
Sustainable farming is a return to the way farming used to be done before industrial farming practices started to drive out the family farmer of business 50 years ago.
But why should YOU care?
1. Animal Welfare Farm animals are well treated. That is because the farmer is invested into the health of the animal, unlike an industrial (Factory) farm. A sustainable farmer has a small number of animals and is impacted if that animal becomes sick. Industrial farms factor the number of animals that are going to die into their profitability equations. Animals on sustainable farms are also able to engage in natural behaviors such as grazing, rooting or pecking, and are fed a natural diet appropriate for their species. Factory-farmed animals are crammed together in unsanitary conditions, where they suffer horribly. Read more
2. Your Health Industrial agriculture relies on synthetic fertilizers and chemical pesticides, large amounts of water, Artificial hormones in milk, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, mad cow disease, and large-scale outbreaks of potentially deadly e.coli. According to New York Times bestselling author Jo Robinson, grass-fed beef has two to six times more omega-3′s than factory farmed, grain-fed meat. Read more
3. Our Environment On industrial farms thousands of pounds of animal waste is dumped into “lagoons” and sprayed on fields. This waste is toxic because of the use of antibiotics and growth hormones given to the animals on industrial farms. In 1995 25 million gallons of hog waste spilled into the New River in North Carolina. The spill killed about 10 million fish and closed 364,000 acres of coastal wetlands to shellfishing. It was the worst environmental spill in United States History until the Gulf oil spill in 2010. Read more
4. Supports our Local NC Small Farmers/Rural Communities Sustainable farmers are paid a fair wage and not dependent on government subsidies (your tax dollars) like industrial farms. The rural workforce employed on U.S. farms dropped by about 50 percent in the 1980s and 1990s. These rural farmers spend 95 percent of farm-related expenditures within their local communities. When the farmers were driven out of business by industrial farms, the communities slowly died. Industrial farms replaced jobs that sustained a community with dangerous, minimum wage jobs. Read more |
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August 15th, 2011
| RALEIGH, N.C. –Animal welfare advocates unveiled a new mobile phone app, which will help them get the word out about issues and legislation affecting animals.It’s called “Susie’s Law First Responders’ Mobile App.”
The app is named after Susie, an abused dog whose case inspired a law toughening penalties for those convicted of animal abuse.
The new app can be downloaded from the Susie’s Law Facebook page.
If you are already a fan of the facebook page, you can get the new app by clicking “mobile app” link on the left side of the Susie’s Law facebook page. |
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August 7th, 2011
| Forsyth County Commissioners are finally considering a tethering (chaining) ordinance to protect dogs from this brutal practice. It is now up to you let our Commissioners know that you support an ordinance that will protect dogs. We need each and every one of you to come to the Forsyth County Commissioners meeting, Monday August 8th, 6:00pm, County Govt Center, 201 N Chestnut St., Winston Salem, NC (Click for map).
If you care about chained dogs, be a voice for the voiceless and come out for the dogs who lost the battle in the heat of summer and brutal cold of winter with nothing but isolation, loneliness thirst, and hunger. |
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