Please call your U.S. Senators right away and urge them to vote NO on the Grassley CAFO Amendment to the 2013 Farm Bill.

Legal Battle Continues against the USDA for Allowing the Sale of Diseased Bird Livers

We did it! Together, you and other animal advocates helped us reach our goal of 50,000 signatures on our citizen’s petition to ban foie gras.

Please contact the USDA and FSIS and urge them to support ALDF's petition to clarify dangerously confusing labeling in the use of antibiotics in meat and poultry.

ALDF Calls on Federal Agency to Protect Public from "Superbug" Crisis Posed by Factory Farms

Animal news from the desk of ALDF's Executive Director, Stephen Wells.

Agency responds to Lawsuit Pushing for Mandatory Disclosure of "Eggs from Caged Hens"

ALDF Calls on Animal Agriculture Alliance to Produce Alleged Evidence of Manipulated Factory Farm Footage

The Animal Agriculture Alliance is holding a conference in Arlington, Virginia on May 1st and 2nd called “Activists at the Door: Protecting Animals, Farms, Food & Consumer Confidence.”

The Animal Legal Defense Fund had a great week in our fight to protect the lives and advance the interest of animals!

Attorney General Asked to Investigate State Foie Gras Ban Violations After List of Hudson Valley Foie Gras Purchasers Is Made Public

Horse slaughter for human consumption has been outlawed in the United States for many years, but a recent push by the animal agriculture lobby aims to open the slaughterhouse doors to horses once again.

Meanwhile, Tyson supplier's employees were convicted of cruelty.

ALDF’s False-Advertising Lawsuit Continues against New York-based Hudson Valley Foie Gras

As the days grow warmer here in Northern California, the Animal Legal Defense Fund docket is heating up with innovative ways to fight animal cruelty.

I understood in my mind they were trying to help me but my body didn't understand that. My body felt like it was being battered. For the birds, there is no logical understanding. There is no compassion. There is only brutality, betrayal, and pain.

Animal Legal Defense Fund Fights Deceptive Marketing by Hudson Valley Foie Gras

If, like most Americans, you and your loved ones eat meat as a regular part of your diet, you should consider the following: an astounding eighty (80%) of all antibiotics sold in this country is fed to farmed animals.

It's time for all the sweets that spring holidays bring, but without the eggs and hold the cruelty.

Do we have the right to know how eggs are really produced? Labels on egg cartons reading "From Caged Hens," "Cage-Free," or "Free-Range" would be a step in the right direction.

Lawsuit Pushes for Mandatory Labeling of Eggs as "From Caged Hens," "Cage-Free," or "Free-Range"

What is the future of humane eggs? The future, according to Josh Tetrick, CEO of Hampton Creek Foods, is plants.

The Stockton, California-based egg producers are using misleading packaging to distort the nature of their industrial-scale operations. Take action!

The U.S. produces about 75 billion eggs a year. Cartons labeled by phrases like "cage-free," "free-range," and "pastured," adorn egg packages in most markets. But what do these phrases mean? The vast majority of egg-laying hens live lives of extreme deprivation and cruelty.

Undercover Investigation Exposes Napa’s La Toque Restaurant for Flagrant Violation of Foie Gras Ban

Who wears fur anymore? It is an unquestionably cruel luxury that only the most callous would put on their shopping list.

Ongoing Legal Fight against Foie Gras Industry Continues

In the largest California farmed animal rescue in history the Turlock, California-based company A & L Poultry abandoned 50,000 hens without food or water and left them to die. In response, ALDF filed an extreme neglect complaint with the Stanislaus County Superior Court.

U.S. Insistence on Feed Additive "Ractopamine" Causes Alarm Worldwide

This week, ALDF filed a consumer protection complaint with the Federal Trade Commission against Tyson Food Inc. for misleading consumers with deceptive advertising. As the largest U.S. producer of chicken products, and the second largest producer of pork and beef products, Tyson’s presence in the animal product industry extends across the nation.

ALDF Presses the FTC to Investigate Misleading Animal Welfare and Sustainability "Greenwashing" by Nation's Largest Chicken Producer

Anyone who cares about animals needs to understand what ractopamine is, why factory farmers use it, and how little the FDA does to protect animals and the general public.

This week, ALDF joined forces with Center for Food Safety (CFS) to petition the FDA to rethink its mistaken approval of high levels of the dangerous animal drug ractopamine.

Undercover Investigation Leads to Landmark Florida “Public Nuisance” Lawsuit

A dark world of animal abuse is proliferating in Florida. Known as "backyard slaughter," animals are illegally slaughtered and butchered on makeshift farms. The banned meat is then sold on the black market.

ALDF’s Litigation Program is going to court this week to shed light on the living condition of hens in the egg industry.

A day of gratitude and compassion cannot include cruelty or slaughter.

Lawsuit Targets New York Foie Gras Producer’s False “Humane” Advertising Claims

Animal law requires hard work, especially in cases that can continue for years. This is why the Animal Legal Defense Fund was so delighted to have Morgan Hector step aboard as a pro bono lawyer in our foie gras suit against the USDA.

This year’s drought is leading U.S. farmers to cut corners—in cost and in animal welfare. Instead of buying increasingly expensive feed-corn, they are feeding cows surplus candy.

Lawsuit Targets Deceptive Promotional Materials Used by Judy’s Eggs and Petaluma Egg Farm

Lawsuit targets failure to declare potential health risks of products from force-fed ducks and geese.

Due to the torturous force-feeding process universally employed in the industry, foie gras, whether from Hudson Valley or any other producer, is never the humane choice.

The San Francisco Animal Care and Control Deputy Director has said that the agency won't issue citations to chefs who give away foie gras.

Free foie gras, “foie-kage” fees, boycotting California wines—the attempts to shake off the recent foie gras ban in California are reminiscent of the Dr. Seuss story, “Green Eggs and Ham.”

The California ban is a basic prohibition on torturing animals to make them taste better. I was shocked to hear officials suggesting they would not enforce the ban.

Animal Legal Defense Fund Asks Attorney General Harris to Take on Local Chefs, Industry Insiders Who Claim Force-Fed Foie Gras is "Humane"

Compassion Over Killing (COK), Cal-Cruz Hatcheries, Inc., and its president, Brian Collins, have entered into a settlement to resolve all claims relating to an unfair business practices lawsuit based on alleged animal cruelty at the hatchery.

Animal Legal Defense Fund and Compassion Over Killing Claim Victory in Lawsuit Against Cal-Cruz Based on Undercover Investigation Revealing Animal Cruelty

On July 1st, California's force-fed foie gras ban will take effect, and the state will take its place as the first to prohibit this diseased and inhumane product.

Animal Legal Defense Fund Represents Farmed Animal Sanctuaries Who Rescued Almost 4,500 Birds

You know you've crossed into the Twilight Zone when celebrity chefs who promote the sale of foie gras, a "delicacy" consisting of the intentionally enlarged livers of force-fed ducks, claim to be victims.

Federal Poultry Products Inspection Act Requires USDA to Prohibit Adulterated Livers from Entering Food Supply

Animal protection law takes effect this July.

Steer tailing and horse tripping are tortuous events that have been banned in California and at least eight other states. It is time for the Minnesota State Legislature to step up and ban these rodeo activities. They are animal cruelty, plain and simple.

It's easy to see why legions of journalists and bloggers have gleefully jumped on the pink slime bandwagon, offering their commentary on the massive backlash.

Food safety risks, animal abuse, and illegal working conditions are rampant on factory farms -- and the corporate agriculture lobby is attempting to pass so-called "ag gag" laws in several states -- laws which would make it illegal to photograph or videotape at agricultural facilities.

Producing foie gras, a delicacy only the uber-rich normally eat, equals animal cruelty.

Do you know where your food comes from? Let's hope not from Iowa.

Why big ag is working so hard to keep what goes on behind factory farm gates a secret.

On March 2, Iowa governor Terry Branstad caved to the factory farming industries and signed House File 589, an "ag gag" law designed to keep the public in the dark about the cruelty that pervades modern animal agriculture.

Prevent factory farmers from hiding what goes on behind closed doors.

Food safety risks, animal abuse, and illegal working conditions are rampant on factory farms, and the corporate agriculture lobby is attempting to pass so-called "ag gag" laws -- laws which would make it illegal to photograph or videotape at agricultural facilities, or to possess or distribute such evidence.

An estimated 50,000 chickens were found starving on a Stanislaus County farm after they were left without feed for over two weeks. Homes are needed for surviving hens, who will be ready for adoption in a week or two. Please visit Animal Place's adoption page if you can help.

In May 2008, Christopher Comins shot two Siberian husky dogs that had come onto an Orange County, Florida property where Comins happened to be walking.

I consider myself a compassionate person. Yet, I know that there are situations in which I have let myself and others down, where the limits of my compassion have been reached. With that knowledge, I'm working on enlarging and strengthening my own compassion.

Help prevent the cruel mistreatment of sick and disabled farmed animals!

Contact your federal legislators and ask for their support of the Downed Animal and Food Safety Protection Act.

Farmed animals have been left unprotected from cruelty laws for too long.

Animal Legal Defense Fund and Compassion Over Killing Seek to Stop Abuse of Newborn Chicks Following Undercover Investigation

Do people still not know where the fur trimming on their jacket comes from?

With the steady stream of shocking undercover video documenting abuses of America's "food animals" making it into our regular media diet, I am not at all surprised that the factory meat/egg/dairy industries are trying to suppress the free flow of information about their operations.

Cue the holiday clichés--snow gently falling amidst the evergreens, sipping cocoa by firelight, and the most adorable holiday cliché of all--rescued animals in outerwear!

ALDF combats attempts to criminalize documenting abuse on factory farms.

Post-Holiday Indulgence, Could Celebrity Chef Be as Diseased as Birds Force-Fed for Foie Gras?

What laws exist to protect the greatest number of animals used by humans: farmed animals?

Many people will buy foie gras this season, believing the industry's lies that it's somehow humane.

Give thanks that turkeys are not our food, but our companions.

More than a quarter-million Americans have already signed the Animal Legal Defense Fund's Animal Bill of Rights. Sign on your support and speak out to your lawmakers today!

ALDF intervenes in case, supporting state anti-cruelty law against corporate profit-seekers

On November 9, the Supreme Court of the United States will hear arguments in a case that will determine whether California voters or out-of-state corporations have the right to decide how farmed animals in California are treated.

ALDF is now fighting a case in the Supreme Court that shows they are.

Texas is putting the welfare of factory farmers over that of its citizens. What else are state officials good for if they cannot even protect food safety?

The Cal-Maine facility, where more than one million chickens are crammed into cages so small that the hens cannot even spread their wings, was packed full of live birds in various stages of illness and disease, and caged alongside dead, decaying corpses.

Groups join Texas legal battle to protect consumers from salmonella outbreaks

The rightness or wrongness of how we treat animals is not just about the number of animals.

The Animal Legal Defense Fund filed a legal petition with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, urging that foie gras -- the "fatty liver" of a force-fed duck or goose -- bear a consumer warning label stating "NOTICE: Foie gras products are derived from diseased birds."

Join the Animal Legal Defense Fund in urging the USDA to place a consumer warning label on foie gras.

Veterinarians play an integral role in the fight against animal cruelty. Download ALDF's quick reference guide for state by state information regarding veterinarians' duty to report suspected animal cruelty.

It's time to close loopholes in the federal animal fighting law, thereby giving law enforcement the tools they need to hold animal abusers accountable.

Help make it illegal to attend or bring a minor to animal fights!

In its treatment of farmed animals, how does the United States compare to Europe? Sadly, the answer is: not so great.

When we are faced with mass suffering, is it easier not to care?

If you have purchased foie gras believing it was humanely raised, we want to hear from you.

On July 7th, the Humane Society of the United States and the United Egg Producers announced an agreement by which the two traditional adversaries will jointly recommend that Congress pass new standards for the welfare of egg-laying hens. So how does this legislation fit into the broader scheme of federal animal protections?

In hipster enclaves from Silver Lake to Williamsburg, the long July 4 weekend no doubt meant a serious run on PBR, miles of windblown bangs, and artfully-uniformed ironic dodge ball games (the short shorts! the tube socks!).

The city of Juárez considers bringing back bullfighting as a way to stimulate the economy.

A post on kcrg.com reports that "Opponents of a measure aimed at helping agricultural operations guard against 'gotcha' videos secretly filmed inside livestock operations are raising food safety and other concerns in an attempt to keep House File 589 from reaching Gov. Terry Branstad's desk this legislative session."

By now many readers will have heard of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's recent announcement that he will only eat animals that he personally killed. He's since boiled to death a lobster and cut a goat's throat.