October 15-17, 2010
Portland, Oregon

On June 21, lawyers, regulators and policy makers converged in Washington D.C. to discuss the necessary steps to ensure that chemical testing protects public health, the environment, and animals -- using twenty-first century toxicology.

Obama backs plan to lift ban on commercial whaling.

Hialeah, Florida
Case Closed

Last year, Americans spent roughly $18 billion dollars on coffee—and virtually nothing to protect animals from some of the worst abuses imaginable. Is this who we are?

Faster than you can say "stop building," Puerto Rico's Appeals Court decided in late-January to let construction continue on a primate breeding facility in Guayama while it considers an appeal filed two days earlier by the builder Bioculture Ltd.

Construction of primate breeding facility in Puerto Rico stopped.

Bob Barker may best be known as the beloved host of the longest running TV game show in history. But "The Price is Right" host is also a long-time advocate for animals and is the keynote speaker at Animal Legal Defense Fund's "Future of Animal Law" conference on April 9-11 at Harvard Law School.

Does animal law threaten animal research?

Podcasts are now available of Animal Law: The Links, The Animal Law Conference at Lewis & Clark, hosted by the Center for Animal Law Studies and the Student Animal Legal Defense Fund at Lewis & Clark Law School.

I'm just back from the latest and, arguably, the most exciting in our series of symposia on the path to implementing the National Research Council's 2007 Report on Toxicity Testing in the 21st Century.

ALDF Developing Symposia to Explore Non-animal Toxicity Tests

A rare opportunity to save animals from intense suffering.

A primate research center seeks millions in stimulus money to expand its facility.

Join the Animal Legal Defense Fund and an international coalition of attorneys, scientists, and animal advocates in opposing the proposed construction of a massive facility in Puerto Rico for the purpose of breeding primates for use in painful and traumatic laboratory experiments.

In 2007, the U.S. National Research Council released a report entitled "Toxicity Testing in the 21st Century: A Vision and A Strategy". This Report proposes a new paradigm for toxicity testing, one that moves away from using live animals and replaces them with alternatives, such as cell cultures, tissues cultures, computer models and other methods.

I spend more evenings than I'd care to admit trying to divine what my dog and two cats are thinking. It is a never-ending source of amusement for me to watch them relate to each other, and to me, and see how they motivate and manipulate each other.

I had the time of my life for a weekend in February - cooking and cleaning for seven wonderful chimpanzees (Jamie, Burrito, Annie, Missy, Negra, Jody and Foxie) at Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest (CSNW) and spending precious time watching them.

Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest (CSNW) is the paradise that I have had the honor and privilege of taking part in, from a series of angles and relationships. You are invited to read about my first trip to visit the Cle Elum Seven, the chimpanzees who have made the incredible journey from as many as thirty years of torture in a small dark barren cage (no blankets, no toys, nothing to interest them at all) to the gift of Sanctuary, in every sense of the word. Finally and forever, they are safe.