Wayne Pacelle, right, talks with Kathy Riordan, a commissioner on the board of Los Angeles Animal Services, following a news conference at which Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa signed the city’s spay/neuter law. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
Los Angeles Mayor Villaraigosa, holding a puppy and flanked by City Council members, announces passage of the city’s spay/neuter law. Wayne Pacelle, head of the U.S. Humane Society, was on hand. The organization’s hidden-camera video of cows at a Chino slaughterhouse being dragged, pushed and hosed got the plant closed down in February and sparked the largest meat recall in U.S. history. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
Los Angeles City Councilman Tony Cardenas holds a kitten as Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announces passage of the city’s spay/neuter law. Pacelle’s group litigates, launches public awareness campaigns, and lobbies against animal fighting, puppy mills, seal hunting and killing for fur, canned hunting of animals trapped in reserves and the cruelty of factory farming. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
