Animal Partisan

Minnesota sheriffs want to prosecute animal welfare charges at USDA-regulated facilities

Animal Partisan’s 2-year-old petition to the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service about enforcement of animal welfare laws has been endorsed by a second state law enforcement organization.

By Dan Flynn

/ 20 Nov 2025

Minnesota sheriffs want to prosecute animal welfare charges at USDA-regulated facilities

Idaho Sheriffs’ Association endorses Animal Partisan petition for shared jurisdiction

The two-year, 14-page petition to the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) from Animal Partisan, an animal activist group based in Glen Allen, VA, has garnered its first

By Dan Flynn

/ 3 Sep 2025

Idaho Sheriffs’ Association endorses Animal Partisan petition for shared jurisdiction

More support for FSIS to share jurisdiction for animal abuse with states

The 2-year-old petition from Animal Partisan to the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), calling upon the agency to share its federal jurisdiction over animal abuse with state

By Dan Flynn

/ 24 Jul 2025

More support for FSIS to share jurisdiction for animal abuse with states

USDA asked to share animal welfare with state law enforcement in pending petition

Princess Bednarski, Livestock Manager for the Houston Humane Society (HHS), has renewed support for a 2-year-old petition from Animal Partisan to the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS)

By Dan Flynn

/ 8 Jul 2025

USDA asked to share animal welfare with state law enforcement in pending petition

A comment is longer than the petition for animal cruelty investigations

The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has, since last Sept. 2, been considering a 14-page petition from Animal Partisan requesting that it issue a notice to convey that: 1)

By Dan Flynn

/ 7 Jun 2024

A comment is longer than the petition for animal cruelty investigations

VAFAW supports Animal Partisan petition

The Veterinary Association for Farm Animal Welfare (VAFAW), a nonprofit organization, has submitted lengthy comments to the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) about Animal Partisan ’s petition that was

By Dan Flynn

/ 3 Apr 2024

State anti-cruelty enforcement doesn’t need to be bound by federal authority, prosecutors say

An organization for all prosecutors, including appointed and elected and their deputies and assistants, supports the pending Animal Partisan petition. The Association of Prosecuting Attorneys (APA) is a private non-profit

By Dan Flynn

/ 4 Mar 2024

State anti-cruelty enforcement doesn’t need to be bound by federal authority, prosecutors say

Pending FSIS petitions continue to generate new comments

Without naming his company or town, Mr. Chris Jenkins became the first to ask USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service to “strike down” Petition 23-07 from Animal Partisan last

By Dan Flynn

/ 30 Jan 2024

Pending FSIS petitions continue to generate new comments

Animal activists claim state officials are not exempt from enforcing anti-cruelty laws

A petition filed last year with USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is among the first to generate a comment in 2024. Animal Partisan, one of the nation’

By Dan Flynn

/ 26 Jan 2024

Animal activists claim state officials are not exempt from enforcing anti-cruelty laws

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Minnesota sheriffs want to prosecute animal welfare charges at USDA-regulated facilities

Idaho Sheriffs’ Association endorses Animal Partisan petition for shared jurisdiction

More support for FSIS to share jurisdiction for animal abuse with states

USDA asked to share animal welfare with state law enforcement in pending petition

A comment is longer than the petition for animal cruelty investigations

VAFAW supports Animal Partisan petition

State anti-cruelty enforcement doesn’t need to be bound by federal authority, prosecutors say

Pending FSIS petitions continue to generate new comments

Animal activists claim state officials are not exempt from enforcing anti-cruelty laws