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Appeal Challenges Arkansas’ Unconstitutional ‘Ag-Gag’ Law
Advocates continue to fight law that penalizes whistleblowing on factory farms, other businesses in violation of the First AmendmentMarch 12, 2020 Press Release -
Court Rules Kansas Ag-Gag Law Unconstitutional
Animal Legal Defense Fund-led coalition wins major victory for animal protection, food and worker safety, and the First AmendmentJanuary 22, 2020 Press Release -
Lawsuit Seeks to Protect Pigs from Cruel High-Speed Slaughter
The Animal Legal Defense Fund filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for issuing a final rule allowing pig slaughterhouses nationwide to police themselves and kill pigs at very high line speeds.January 13, 2020 News -
Protecting Pigs from Cruel High-Speed Slaughter
On December 18, 2019, the Animal Legal Defense Fund, with a coalition of environmental and animal protection groups, filed a lawsuit against the U.S Department of Agriculture (USDA) for issuing a final rule allowing pig slaughterhouses…
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Court Rejects Attempt to Block California Law Banning Cruelest Farming Practices
Meat industry request for preliminary injunction denied and animal protection coalition allowed to intervene in suit challenging constitutionality of Prevention of Cruelty to Farm Animals ActNovember 25, 2019 Press Release -
Challenging Fairlife’s Deceptive Marketing Practices
In November 2019, the Animal Legal Defense Fund joined forces with multiple law firms to bring a class action lawsuit against Fairlife LLC, an Illinois-based dairy company owned by Coca-Cola and Select Milk Producers, Inc. The…
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Defending California’s Proposition 12 from NAMI
In October 2019, a coalition of animal protection organizations filed a motion to intervene in a lawsuit to defend the constitutionality of the Prevention of Cruelty to Farm Animals Act and preserve California’s right to ban…
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How False Advertising Lawsuits Help Animals
Some producers and retailers market their products in ways designed to trick consumers into believing that their products are “humane” even though they come from animals who suffer in industrialized factory farming facilities. -
Federal Rule Allowing Cruel High-Speed Pig Slaughter Violates Federal Law
The USDA violated federal law in finalizing this rule, acting contrary to the mountain of evidence before it demonstrating the rule’s dangers, and flouting humane slaughter and meat inspection laws.September 17, 2019 News -
Innovation in Food Production: Cultivated Meat
Innovators in the United States and around the world will soon bring to market new and transformative products that have the ability to reshape animal agriculture as we know it.
