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Increasing Safety Measures After Cat Haven Zoo Death
In 2013, an intern at Cat Haven Zoo in Northern California was tragically killed by a lion. Diana Hanson, 24, was mauled when Cous Cous the lion escaped his feeding cage and entered a larger enclosure…
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Urging the Extension of Endangered Status to Captive Chimpanzees
In 2011, the Animal Legal Defense Fund submitted comments urging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to extend endangered status to captive chimpanzees, along with all of the meaningful legal protections such a listing entails.…
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Complaints Filed After Tyson Foods Undercover Investigation
In September 2015, the Animal Legal Defense Fund released undercover video footage from inside a Tyson Foods, Inc. slaughter plant in Carthage, Texas, documenting a system that exploits both workers and animals. This video followed the…
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La Toque Restaurant Illegally Selling Foie Gras
California lawmakers enacted a ban on the production and sale of foie gras in 2004, due to the cruelty involved: geese and ducks are force fed large quantities of food in order to make the animals’…
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Challenging Judy’s Family Farm Organic Eggs’ Deceptive Advertising
In 2014, the Animal Legal Defense Fund settled a false-advertising lawsuit against Defendant Steven Mahrt, doing business as Petaluma Farms and owner of Judy’s Family Farm Organic Eggs. The lawsuit alleged that imagery and statements used…
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Challenging Cricket Hollow Zoo’s Care of Endangered Species (2014)
Life was not good for the animals at the Cricket Hollow Zoo in Manchester, Iowa. Five tigers died in the span of two years, due to inadequate veterinary care. Another tiger was found to be suffering…
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Challenging the USDA for Reissuing Roadside Zoo’s License
The Animal Legal Defense Fund sued the USDA in federal court for reissuing an Iowa roadside zoo license despite frequent violations recorded by the USDA’s own inspectors, including inadequate staffing, filthy enclosures, and deficient veterinary care. -
Petition to Food & Drug Administration to Regulate Ractopamine Use
In 2012, the Animal Legal Defense Fund filed a petition with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) calling for the immediate reduction in the allowable levels of ractopamine, the controversial animal feed additive widely used…
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Petitions FTC to Investigate Deceptive Claims of Top Three Tuna Suppliers
In 2012, the Animal Legal Defense Fund filed a petition with the Federal Trade Commission asking the agency to take action to stop Bumble Bee, Chicken of the Sea, and StarKist from making deceptive claims to…
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Argument for an Animals’ Intrinsic Value
In 2012, the Animal Legal Defense Fund filed amicus briefs in two consolidated California cases, in which the issue at stake was whether a plaintiff could recover veterinary expenses if those expenses exceeded the market value…
