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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. -
Animal Legal Defense Fund Suit Against Foie Gras Seller Dismissed After Court of Appeal Victory
Restaurant Vows to Cease Foie Gras “Giveaways” Declared Illegal by Appellate Court.August 27, 2019 Press Release -
From Farmhouse to Courthouse: Applying Animal Cruelty Law on Behalf of Farmed Animals 2019
Farmed animals feature in some of the oldest known legal cases. Despite the venerable history of farmed animals within the law, these animals are all too often thought of as being entirely excluded from the protection of animal cruelty legislation. -
Challenging Arkansas’s Ag-Gag Law
The Animal Legal Defense Fund led a coalition that filed a lawsuit in Arkansas challenging the constitutionality of the state’s Ag-Gag law — which prohibits undercover investigations that expose abuses at factory farms and other businesses…
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Lawsuit Challenges Constitutionality of Arkansas Ag-Gag Law
Advocates for animals, free speech and the environment take on secrecy at factory farms following victories in Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and IowaJune 25, 2019 Press Release -
Restaurants and Retailers Warned Against Illegal Sales of Foie Gras
California businesses alerted they must comply with the law banning sale of cruelly-produced “gourmet” delicacyMarch 18, 2019 Press Release -
Foie Gras Banished from California Restaurants
The Animal Legal Defense Fund celebrates Supreme Court’s refusal to take up case challenging state ban on the cruel product.January 7, 2019 Press Release -
Defense of Chicago’s Foie Gras Ban
In 2006, Chicago’s City Council enacted a ban on the sale of foie gras, a “delicacy” produced by cruelly force feeding ducks and geese until their livers swell to many times their normal size. The Illinois…
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25 Animals Rescued from Pennsylvania Ice Cream Shop
All animals from Jim Mack’s Ice Cream shop, including alpacas, a llama, emus, peacocks, rabbits, chickens, goats, and a goose, were transferred to rescues.December 7, 2017 News
