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) State government officials are not categorically preempted from enforcing state anti-cruelty laws by the Federal Meat Inspection Act, the Humane
Continue Reading A comment is longer than the petition for animal cruelty investigations
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 organization based in Washington, D.C.
The petition requests that USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) issue a notice to
Continue Reading State anti-cruelty enforcement doesn’t need to be bound by federal authority, prosecutors say
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’s many animal activist organizations, authored the petition.
Petition 23-07, requests that FSIS issue a notice to convey that: 1) State government
Continue Reading Animal activists claim state officials are not exempt from enforcing anti-cruelty laws
Animal activists always seem to have something going on, with no shortage of organizations to carry out their agendas. Last Sept. 2, an incoming petition to USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) asked for a notice conveying that:
1) State government officials are not categorically preempted from enforcing state anti-cruelty
Continue Reading The petition suggests federal jurisdiction may be casting a shadow over state animal cruelty