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Forcing Disclosure of Foster Farms Water Usage Records
Foster Farms operates a slaughterhouse and poultry processing plant in Livingston, California that uses vast quantities of city water. The Animal Legal Defense Fund requested records from Livingston to investigate Foster Farms’ water usage during the…
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Defending Animal Activists’ First Amendment Rights
In April 2017, the Animal Legal Defense Fund filed a motion to dismiss Manning Beef’s lawsuit against Los Angeles Cow Save, a group that organizes vigils for slaughtered animals on the public road in front of…
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Exposing the Living Conditions of Hens Used by the Egg Industry
In March 2017, the Animal Legal Defense Fund sued the the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) for violating the California Public Records Act by unlawfully withholding records regarding living conditions of hens used by…
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Urging the FDA to Regulate the Term “Natural”
In 2016, the Animal Legal Defense Fund and the Center for Biological Diversity jointly submitted comments to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) calling on the agency to work with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to…
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Challenging Hormel’s Deceptive Advertising Practices: Natural Choice®
Update: The Animal Legal Defense Fund filed a motion to dismiss its lawsuit as its disputes have been resolved. Read more in the press release. In 2016, the Animal Legal Defense Fund filed a lawsuit against…
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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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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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Seeking Justice for 50,000 Hens Abandoned by A & L Poultry
In February 2012, Andy Cheung and Lien Diep, doing business as A & L Poultry, allegedly abandoned 50,000 hens hens without food at a facility near Turlock, which led to the largest farmed animal rescue in…
