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Add your voice to the Animal Legal Defense Fund's initiatives to improve the lives and advance the interests of animals through the legal system.
The Animal Legal Defense Fund works at the federal, state and local levels to advance important legislation. We advocate for laws that promote or protect the lives and interests of animals, and we oppose legislation that would be detrimental to animals’ well-being.
National Actions
Urgent Action: U.S. House Revives Push to Override State Animal Welfare Laws with Rebranded EATS Act
Take action now to oppose the Save Our Bacon Act, a repackaged version of the damaging EATS Act, which would undermine individual states’ ability to enact their own laws to protect farmed animals, consumers, and food safety.
Urgent: Ask Your Legislators to Support the Captive Primate Safety Act
Urge Congress to support the Captive Primate Safety Act to prohibit the private possession of apes, monkeys and other nonhuman primates and their sale or transportation for the “pet” trade!
Urgent: Ask Your Legislators to Support Canyon’s Law
This legislation would ban M-44s — spring-loaded devices filled with sodium cyanide used to kill native carnivores and so-called "pest" species — from public lands.
USDA: Revoke Convicted Wildlife Trafficker’s License!
Email the USDA and urge the agency to investigate and revoke the license for convicted wildlife trafficker Jason Clay, who is still operating a roadside zoo in Texas.
State Actions
Check for state-level actions you can take:
Oregon: Oppose Permit for New Factory Farm!
One quick action to stop a cruel, environmentally hazardous new dairy factory farm proposed for eastern Oregon.
California: Ban Cruel Cat Declawing!
Legislation banning the declawing of cats is pending in the California legislature. Ask your state senator to support a statewide declaw ban today!
Delaware: Stop Cruel Puppy Mills
Urge Delaware lawmakers to support H.B.131, a state bill to protect animals from commercial breeding mills and stop the puppy-mill-to-pet-store pipeline into the state.
New York: Take action for octopuses today!
Help protect New York’s waters, residents, and octopuses by supporting a statewide ban on octopus farming!
Texas: Stop Cruel Puppy Mills!
Urge Texas lawmakers to support a retail sales ban on puppies and kittens to fight the cruel puppy mill industry.
Oregon: Urge Governor Kotek and State Officials to Close OHSU’s Oregon National Primate Research Center!
Urge Governor Kotek, the Oregon Health Authority, and your state legislators to ensure that the merger between OHSU and Legacy Health moves forward only on the condition of closing this cruel primate experimentation facility.
California: Pass a Wild Animal Public Contact Ban
Urge your lawmakers to support the Public Contact Safety Act (A.B.892).
Massachusetts: Take Action for Companion Animals in Pet Custody Cases Today!
Urge your Massachusetts lawmakers to support the “Pet Custody Bill” — An Act Standardizing Consideration of Pets in Divorce and Separation, S.1206/H.1817 — which provides a framework for judges to use in determining the best interests of a companion animal when a couple is splitting up.
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Stop Ag-Gag Laws
Undercover investigations and whistleblowers have exposed some of the worst aspects of factory farming, but Ag-Gag laws punish people who speak out about cruelty in animal agriculture. Voice your opposition.
No More Puppy Mills
Puppy mill operators maximize their profits by producing large numbers of puppies as quickly as possible. As a result, unsanitary conditions, disease, and neglect are rampant. Sign our pledge to boycott puppy mills. Together we can end cruel puppy mills.
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UW-Madison’s Censorship of Speech Criticizing Testing on Animals on Its Social Media Accounts is Unconstitutional
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals overturns a lower court’s dismissal of the case, finding the public university suppressed free speechAugust 5, 2025 Press Release -
New Lawsuit filed Against CARB’s LCFS
California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard incentivizes factory farm pollution nationwideAugust 1, 2025 News -
Pigs and Public Health Act Reintroduced in the U.S. House to Prohibit Slaughter of Downed Pigs
Bill will reduce the risk of zoonotic disease transmission and foodborne illness by establishing new standards for non-ambulatory, or “downed” pigsJuly 25, 2025 Press Release
