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COVID-19 Policy Recommendations
Pandemics have not only been predicted, they are also preventable. While the country continues to fight COVID-19, we must also prepare for — with the intention to prevent — the next pandemic. The Animal Legal Defense Fund is developing a series of papers, each outlining policy strategies calibrated to reduce specific zoonotic risks. -
Reckless California Killing Contests Continue Despite Ban on Prizes
The rural town of Adin, California will hold its annual coyote killing spree despite the 2014 ban on prizes for killing furbearing animals in contests.February 3, 2015 News -
Indiana “Pig Wrestling” Violates Local Anti-cruelty Laws
Sports involving the exploitation of animals are grotesque, and “pig wrestling” is no different.April 28, 2015 News -
ALDF Opens New Frontier for Animal Personhood as Scientists Create Human-Animal Chimeras
What are the legal implications for splicing human cells into nonhuman animals?May 15, 2015 News -
Tyson, Repeat OSHA Violator, Gives its Workers Lip Service Instead of Safer Conditions
Animal Legal Defense Fund's undercover investigator documented egregious violations of workplace health and safety regulations in one of Tyson's chicken slaughterhouses.November 4, 2015 News -
Animal Protection Coalition Urges USDA To Protect Consumers
Animal protection coalition has submitted a comment today, to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) sharply criticizing the agency’s “Labeling Guideline on Documentation Needed to Substantiate Animal Raising Claims for Label Submissions."December 5, 2016 Press Release -
Coalition Urges Federal Agency to Regulate Unpermitted Coyote Killing Contests
The Animal Legal Defense Fund submitted a written request to the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) urging the agency to enforce its own regulations regarding two Rock Springs, Wyoming, coyote-hunting contests.January 4, 2017 News -
Animal Legal Defense Fund Urges Securities and Exchange Commission to Expedite Investigation of Tyson Foods
The Animal Legal Defense Fund is urging the SEC to expedite an investigation of the chicken producer in relation to the organization’s 2015 undercover investigation of a Tyson Foods slaughter plant.January 8, 2017 Press Release -
HIMP: Inherently Cruel for Pigs
Millions of pigs will suffer under an expanded program that allows slaughterhouses to radically increase the speed with which pigs are slaughtered while at the same time decreasing oversight by largely putting the slaughterhouses in charge of policing themselves.June 26, 2017 News -
Joint Comment Letter Opposes National Chicken Council Petition
Granting the petition would endanger worker safety, threaten food safety, and increase the inhumane treatment and death of birds by means other than slaughter.September 21, 2017 News