Animal Welfare
Vox: Meet the new neighbors: 7.5 million chickens and their mountains of manure
“Everyone has a right to use and enjoy their property” under common law, said David Muraskin, managing director for litigation at FarmSTAND. “What the Right to Farm laws have done…
Aquaculture’s Big Catch: Corporate Control
Nothing better illustrates the grim transformation of U.S. aquaculture than Maine’s Cobscook Bay. In the 1970s, local families in the bay employed local workers at smaller-scale salmon farms of 3-4…
Trump’s Deregulatory Legacy: Harming Workers, Consumers, and Animals
During his first term as president, Donald Trump took major steps to deregulate our food system, thereby putting workers, consumers, animals, and the environment at even greater risk. One of…
Signs a Better Food System is Possible: FarmSTAND’s Accomplishments in 2024
2024 was an amazing year for FarmSTAND and the movement for a fair food system. It was our first full year as the only legal organization in the country dedicated…
Law360: Iowa Seeks To Mute ‘Ag-Gag’ Law First Amendment Challenge
“‘The ag-gag law is an attack on traditional democratic processes,’ Espey said in a statement Monday. ‘In its brief, the state does not even attempt to justify this use of…
The Washington Post: N.C. to pay $885,000 to animal rights groups for undercover-video suit
“The case was litigated by attorneys from the nonprofit Public Justice, which has since spun off its agriculture-related work into a group called FarmStand. It was backed by animal rights…
North Carolina Must Pay $884,987 in Attorneys’ Fees for Defending “Anti-Sunshine” Law
Late Friday, the state of North Carolina agreed to pay a public interest coalition that successfully struck down North Carolina’s “Ag-Gag” law $884,987 in attorneys’ fees, as a result of…
Factory Farms Are A Breeding Ground For Disease. We Deserve A Healthier Food System.
These industrial-scale operations come at an extreme cost to animal welfare and public health. Close confinement of animals can increase disease transmission. More contact with other animals, longer contact, poor…
US appeals court revives law banning unauthorized recording on industrial farms
David Muraskin, an attorney representing the animal rights groups, said they will continue to fight, arguing “the law might be applicable to some, but it is unconstitutional as applied to…