Trump Cabinet teams up to end animal abuse
Bondi says prosecutors will be placed in every state to handle animal cruelty cases
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6386776126112
Senior officials in President Donald Trump’s administration say they are cracking down on animal cruelty, rolling out coordinated actions across the Justice Department, the Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to target dogfighting, puppy mills and animal testing.
“We are forming a strike force… and we’re going to have designated U.S. attorneys in every state to prosecute these [animal abuse] cases,” said Attorney General Pam Bondi on “My View with Lara Trump” on Saturday.
Bondi appeared with Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to discuss their inter-agency animal welfare initiative.
Bondi said her department would work with the USDA to conduct special training for prosecutors and law enforcement agents on executing search warrants in animal abuse cases.
“We just last week convicted someone, for the first time ever, of using a firearm in a violent crime, and the violent crime was dogfighting,” Bondi said.
In another example that shows “no one is above the law,” Bondi told host Lara Trump that 190 dogs were seized from former NFL player LeShon Johnson.
“That was the most seized from one single defendant. So we’re coming after you if you’re going after these babies,” she said, holding a small black puppy named Guru in her lap.
Rollins said the USDA is taking a tougher approach to shutting down abusive puppy mills, moving away from issuing warnings and toward stricter enforcement of the Animal Welfare Act.
“Compliance with the Animal Welfare Act, which is from the 1960s, was hovering around 65, 67% until the last few years. We’re now closer to 92%, but it’s that 8% that we’re really going to focus on.”
She described the poor conditions dogs can face in these mass-breeding operations. “No more puppy mills where you have puppies stacked on top of each other, where, if you don’t sell them, then you drown them in a barrel because it’s the cheapest way to do it.”
Kennedy said all the major sub-agency heads at HHS are “all deeply committed to ending animal experimentation.”
He said new studies on animal testing show “that the predictivity of animal models is very, very poor for human health outcomes. There are much more efficient ways of predicting human health outcomes. We are using, even in their nascent stages, computational modeling and AI,” which he said provides much better results.
The HHS chief said there are about 100,000 primates in research labs across the country.
“There are another 20,000 that are imported every year, and we’re very concerned about that. We’re trying to put an end to that completely,” he said, adding that his department was “re-educating researchers” to improve the predictability of human health outcomes.
In September, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) changed its rules to ensure funding could be used to “retire their primates to sanctuaries after the experimentation is done.”
“Until now, there was no option like that, no alternative, except the researcher euthanized that animal after they were through. Now we’re developing sanctuaries across the country,” he said.
I made this post on Laura (Trump) My view on “saving dogs/animals – not one “like” or another post about chronic pain pts being harmed.”
“The moral test of a government is how it treats those who are at the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the aged; and those who are in the shadow of life, the sick and the needy, and the handicapped.” – Hubert Humphrey, Pharmacist, VP
So the harm to dogs/animals is important to the “general public” but just like chronic pain pts die/suicide. Doesn’t that give you the “warm fuzzies” on how the general population concern about chronic pain pts being harmed? Interesting show concerning the protecting of animals, likewise this week I got a text from our Indiana Senator Jim Banks – with a one question survey about my position on abortion.. and about saving more lives. I am a retired Pharmacist and there is abt 100 + million chronic pain pts that the DEA is interfering with chronic pain pts getting their necessary and legally prescribed medications. The DEA is forcing – thru intimidation – for prescribers, drug wholesalers, pharmacies/pharmacist to reduce or stop their medically necessary medications. Forcing them to use the MME system (Morphine Milligram Equivalents) that has no real clinical studies supporting it conclusions and ignoring/ totally discounting DNA testing ( Pharmacogenomic testing) that does have real clinical studies that document that a pt’s liver metabolism affect the amount of medication(s) they need. Resulting in untold number of chronic pain pts to be forced to live/exist in a torturous level of pain, and be home, bed, chair confined because they can’t get their necessary medications prescribed or filled. These chronic pain pts are being forced to go to the street to try and get relief from their pain and end up dying from “illicit street opioids” or end up committing suicide. Why is our society not interested in saving these lives?
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