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United States: Urge Congress to Shut Down Commercial Wildlife Markets
Wild animals sold in commercial wildlife markets endure extreme stress and unsanitary conditions before being slaughtered. Live markets concentrate a diversity of animals into small spaces, packing and stacking them on top of one another, creating a breeding ground for deadly pathogens. -
New White Paper Offers Policy Recommendations to Combat Zoonotic Diseases and Pandemic Risk from Factory Farming
The Animal Legal Defense Fund released the second in a series of white papers — COVID-19 and Factory Farming —providing policy recommendations to address industrial animal agriculture’s role in our heightened risk for zoonotic diseases outbreaks, like COVID-19, and its potential to be the source of the next global pandemic.November 19, 2020 Press Release -
Massachusetts: Urge Your State Representative to Support Two Animal Protection Budget Amendments
The Massachusetts legislature is considering two animal-friendly budget amendments, and your state representative needs to hear from you! Ask your state representative to support Amendment #72 to H.5150 to help companion animals impacted by COVID-19 and Amendment #361 to H.5150 to upgrade welfare standards for egg-laying hens.November 8, 2020 Action Alert -
Factory Farming Message Testing
Animal advocates have faced a conundrum when communicating about COVID-19.November 3, 2020 News -
Preventing Future Pandemics Act (Federal)
Aims to shut down commercial wildlife markets globally -
Emergency Legal Petition Filed with USDA to End Cruel Farm ‘Depopulation’ Methods
A coalition, led by the Animal Legal Defense Fund, filed an emergency petition with the USDA to prevent COVID-19 relief funds, resources, and any other forms of support from facilitating or compensating for the costs of ventilation shutdown or water-based foam “depopulation” — the mass killing of animals on factory farms.August 25, 2020 Press Release -
COVID-19: Rethinking our Relationship with Animals
With global outbreaks of zoonotic disease, like COVID-19, on the rise, it is imperative that we simultaneously mobilize to limit the staggering impact of the current pandemic and take action to mitigate our heightened risk from the next. -
Supporting Industrial Animal Agriculture Whistleblowers
Whistleblower campaign encourages industrial animal agriculture workers to confidentially report animal abuse, worker safety, and more amid the COVID-19 pandemic. -
New White Paper Identifies Root Causes of Zoonotic Disease: Animal Exploitation
The Animal Legal Defense Fund, the preeminent legal advocate for animals, released the first in a series of white papers providing policy recommendations to reduce our heightened risk from zoonotic diseases like COVID-19 and the next global pandemic, which need only a human-animal interaction to arise.June 30, 2020 Press Release -
COVID-19 Policy Recommendations
Pandemics have not only been predicted, they are also preventable. While the country continues to fight COVID-19, we must also prepare for — with the intention to prevent — the next pandemic. The Animal Legal Defense Fund is developing a series of papers, each outlining policy strategies calibrated to reduce specific zoonotic risks.
