Groups Call on the Agency to Issue New Regulations Declaring Foie Gras a Diseased Product

"Free Baby Mendes" Campaign Shines Spotlight on Unlawful Conditions, Little-Known Practice within Dairy Industry

House Agriculture Committee Removes Section 123

Dodgers Sponsor and Hot Dog Purveyor Farmer John® Under Fire in California Lawsuit Aimed to Stop Illegal Abuse of Thousands of Pigs

Q&A With ALDF’s Future of Animal Law Conference Keynote Speaker Jeremy Rifkin

The University of Washington SALDF, along with the UW Center for Human Rights and Justice and the Latin@ Law Student Association hosted a forum on the social costs of factory farms.

Central Valley's CorcPork, Inc., linked to Farmer John® Commercial Pork Products, Violates Consumer Rights, Anti-Cruelty Laws, by Keeping Pigs in Illegal Intensive Confinement Conditions

Since the very beginning, cutting-edge lawsuits have been at the heart of ALDF's work to protect the lives of animals. From pushing government agencies to do their jobs to protect animals to shining a national spotlight on issues like factory farming and dissection in schools.

The Animal Legal Defense Fund, East Bay Animal Advocates, and three Bay Area residents dismissed their lawsuit against Corcpork, Inc. California's largest industrial pig farming operation, after the facility agreed to stop the abusive practice of confining thousands of female pigs in crates so tiny that they cannot turn around or even scratch.

After taking the case against Mendes Calf Ranch all the way to the highest court in the land, ALDF got news on May 15, 2008 that the California Supreme Court was dismissing ALDF v. Mendes