Friends of Animals

In an historic move that Friends of Animals is applauding, the New York City Council, led by Speaker Julie Menin, will vote Oct. 22 to ban the carriage horse trade, finally ending the exploitive industry that’s imprisoned horses since 1858 when Central Park opened. FoA will join bill sponsor Council Member Christopher Marte, who reintroduced the legislation in June, for a cel...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani and New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin have reached a deal to abolish the city’s horse carriage industry.

Menin said Mamdani has agreed to back a bill that would make it illegal to operate a horse-drawn carriage in the city, starting in June 2028, in an announcement shared exclusively with POLITICO on Tuesday. Menin is scheduling...

Stella McCartney SS26

By Nicole Rivard

If anyone can create THE plant-based feather that could move the fashion industry beyond the archaic exploitation and killing of wild birds for their feathers, the issue that’s at the heart of Friends of Animals’ new, provocative ad campaign, its textile artist Nicola Woollon and Jam...

Colorado already allows hunting and fishing. So why is there a ballot initiative to establish killing wildlife as a right?

Amendment 83, appearing on Colorado’s November ballot as an initiated constitutional amendment, would establish a constitutional right to hunt and fish in the state.

Friends of Animals is urging our Colorado members to vote No ...

You may have read that Swiss lawmakers have made the importation and sale of “cruelly produced fur” unlawful from groups like Humane World for Animals.

Here at Friends of Animals, we don’t think regulating atrocities is cause for celebration.

Last year, the Swiss Federal Council banned all imports of fur and fur products produced using “methods that involv...