Miyoko’s Creamery filed the lawsuit after the California Department of Food and Agriculture demanded the brand remove “dairy” and “butter” from its clearly vegan labeled packaging and take down a photo of a woman hugging a rescued cow from its website.
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A panel of three judges in the United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit struck down an attempt by meat industry groups namely National Pork Producers Council and the American Farm Bureau Federation to overturn animal-welfare law Proposition 12. Passed in 2018 by a majority 68 percent vote, Proposition 12 mandates minimum space requirements for farmed animals and prohibits the sale of products in California that are the product of extreme confinement.
To help defend Proposition 12, animal-rights groups the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), Animal Equality, Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF), Animal Outlook, Compassion in World Farming USA, Farm Sanctuary, and the Humane League, intervened in the lawsuit on the side of the State of California. “Californians and animals are victorious yet again as the appeals court rebuffed the meat industry’s attack on the state’s landmark farmed animal anti-confinement law,” ALDF Executive Director Stephen Wells
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This week, actress and animal advocate Kim Basinger sent Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster a demand letter asking him to ban all posts involving animals on his platform. While Craigslist bans the sale of animals on its website, it allows users to post animals they are looking to “rehome,” which creates a loophole for trading animals for nefarious purposes such as dogfighting and other forms of animal abuse.
“It’s maddening to see thousands of postings each day from cities across the country of unscrupulous breeders, puppy and kitten mill operators, and dishonest sellers, taking advantage of the Craigslist ‘rehoming’ loophole and duping families into paying exorbitant fees for animals,” Basinger said. “Partnering with the Animal Legal Defense Fund, I implore Craigslist to exercise its ethical and corporate responsibility in seeing to the closure of the animal ‘rehoming’ loophole by prohibiting these posts once and for all.”
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A lawsuit currently in the appeals process is looking at the federal response to climate change from another angle. Brought by the Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) and Seeding Sovereignty, the lawsuit alleges that when the federal government ignores the climate crisis, it violates Americans’ right to be free.
The lawsuits claim that the government is violating freedoms; namely the freedom to live one’s life and the freedom to not be impacted by others nonconsensually. The goal of the suit is to compel the federal government to act on climate change, according to the ALDF. “Seeding Sovereignty believes that the right to nature is the right to life, inherently essential, priceless in value, and worth protecting,” said Seeding Sovereignty Executive Director Janet MacGillivray in a statement on the lawsuit.