Speak Out for Farmed Animals Month

Speak Out for Farmed Animals is a yearly event dedicated to raising public awareness nationwide about the lack of meaningful laws to protect farmed animals from cruel treatment. Join the Animal Legal Defense Fund for a month of action for farmed animals during October!

Here are a few simple ideas on how individuals can get involved:

• Have a virtual movie night with friends or colleagues. Discuss afterward on Zoom! We suggest:
  • • The Dangers of Ag-Gag Laws, a short film narrated by actress and star of FX Network’s Impeachment: American Crime Story, Edie Falco.
    • Death on a Factory Farm
    • Cowspiracy
    • The Ghosts in Our Machine
    • Earthlings

• Watch an Animal Legal Defense Fund webinar about factory farming. We suggest:
  • Factory Farm Biogas Is Bullsh*t: Lessons Learned from California’s Low Fuel Standard
  • The Legal Significance of the Challenge to California’s Proposition 12
  • How to Advocate for Animals With or Without a Law Degree: Community Organizing for Farmed Animals
  • Stress and Zoonotic Diseases 
  • Factory Farms: Generating Environmental Injustice in North Carolina
  • False Advertising: How to Protect Animals by Litigating for Consumers
  • From Farmhouse to Courthouse: Applying Animal Cruelty Law on Behalf of Farmed Animals 
• Visit or volunteer at a farmed animal sanctuary near you. Send us your photos and share your experience on social media using the hashtag #SpeakOutForFarmedAnimals.
• Take action by signing our “Ag-Gag Hurts Animals” petition.
• Organize an Animal Legal Defense Fund Benefit Day by contacting a local plant-based restaurant or animal-friendly business to see if they would donate a percentage of their total daily sales to the Animal Legal Defense Fund to help us in our groundbreaking legal work for animals.
• Implement Meatless Mondays in your office or at home. Helping other people choose more plant-based options spares the lives of farmed animals.
  
• Thinking of traveling to a state with an Ag-Gag law for vacation or work? Try to avoid it if you can and let them know that you don’t want to spend money in their state because animal protection, transparency, food safety, workers’ rights, and the environment are important to you. Here’s a list of U.S. tourism offices that you can contact.
• Encourage others to join by sharing our actions on social media! Below are a few related to farmed animals.

  • Urge Federal Lawmakers to Oppose Damaging Language in the Farm Bill. The U.S. House Agriculture Committee recently released its version of the Farm Bill, and it includes language that would nullify state laws designed to protect farmed animals and threaten states’ rights. Take action here.

  • Tell Legislators: No Tax Dollars for Factory Farming Gas!

    Sign the petition urging state and federal legislators to say no to factory farm gas and exclude these programs from all tax credits and energy incentives. Take action here.

• Email or call your representative about pending local, state, or federal legislation impacting farmed animals, including Ag-Gag bills.