The law
The statutes — where the fights live.
The federal animal-welfare framework — Animal Welfare Act, Humane Methods of Slaughter Act, FDA Modernization Act, EU Directive 2010/63 — maps directly onto the live fights. Each law lives within the issue page where it's most actionable.
The map
Each statute, where it lives in the campaign.
No federal, state, or international law bans breeding animals for testing. Every existing framework regulates conditions, not the practice itself. Public pressure plus federal enforcement is what closed Envigo (2022) and Ridglan (2026). The same mechanism is the campaign on every fight below.
NIH research-animal funding
Read briefing →Animal Welfare Act · EU Directive 2010/63 · FDA Modernization Act 2.0 / 3.0 · Beagle Freedom Laws
The federal floor on laboratory animals — what the AWA covers (and the ~95% it doesn't), how the EU's 4.0 m² per-dog standard compares to the U.S. 0.44 m², why the FDA Modernization Act matters for ending the demand for beagles, and the 17-state adoption-after-research movement Wisconsin and New York haven't joined.
Farm Bill / Save Our Bacon
Read briefing →Humane Methods of Slaughter Act · Puppy Protection Act · AWA enforcement (Sec. 12406)
The 1958 HMSA's poultry exclusion, the recurring fight to pass the Puppy Protection Act on a standalone vehicle, and the 2026 House Farm Bill's attempt to weaken USDA APHIS authority by requiring 'unrelieved suffering' before action. The Senate vote on Save Our Bacon is the vote on whether state animal-welfare law survives at all.
State foie gras bans
Read briefing →California Health & Safety §§ 25980–25984 · NYC Health Code (2019, upheld 2026)
The legal architecture of California's 2004 production + sale ban (effective 2012), NYC's 2019 retail ban (upheld by the NY Appellate Division in March 2026), and why both are voided the day Save Our Bacon clears the Senate.
State fur bans
Read briefing →California AB 44 (2019) · AB 273 (trapping) · 100+ city + county ordinances
California's first-in-the-nation statewide retail fur ban, the parallel laws in OR / RI / MA / NJ / MN, and the federal preemption fight that decides whether they hold.
Why split it this way
A statute on its own is a footnote.
The AWA's rat / mouse / bird exclusion is a fact. The fight to expand it lives on the NIH research-animal funding briefing. Save Our Bacon is a Farm Bill rider, but its real target is every state animal-welfare law on the books — which is why the Farm Bill briefing, foie gras, and fur briefings all share the same Senate vote.
The legal frame matters when it tells you which call to make. That's what the issue pages do — statute plus current bill plus named officials plus the ask, on one page.
What you can do
Pick a fight. Make the call.
The laws above exist because someone called and someone wrote and someone showed up. The next ones will, too.