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Protecting Pigs from Cruel High-Speed Slaughter
The Animal Legal Defense Fund joined a coalition in suing the U.S Department of Agriculture for issuing a final rule allowing pig slaughterhouses nationwide to police themselves and kill pigs at very high line speeds. -
Challenging Arkansas’s Ag-Gag Law
Update: In March 2020, the coalition filed an appeal, following the lower court’s February dismissal of the lawsuit. In 2021, plaintiffs won on appeal, bringing the case back into the district court. The Animal Legal Defense…
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Opposing USDA’s Attempt to Withdraw Rules Design to Protect Animals on Organic Farms
In May 2018, the Animal Legal Defense Fund joined a coalition of consumer, environmental, and animal protection groups opposing the withdrawal of rules that would provide basic protections for farmed animals at organic farms. -
Challenging Factory Farms’ Exemption from Pollution Reporting Requirements
The Animal Legal Defense Fund joined a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's policy of exempting most factory farms from the legal requirement to report the release of hazardous materials into the environment. -
Challenging Missouri’s Meat Labeling Law
In 2018, the Animal Legal Defense Fund filed a federal lawsuit challenging a Missouri law that that prevents plant-based meat and cultured meat producers from using “meat” terminology because their products do not come from a…
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Upholding Lousiana’s Big Cat Ban
The Animal Legal Defense Fund intervened in Tiger Truck Stop’s lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the big cat ban so that we could both defend the big cat ban and challenge the special law exempting Tiger Truck Stop from the ban.
