Mariann Sullivan

The cognitive dissonance is real. Hear @marisul.bsky.social unpack industry claims in our latest Rising Anxieties episode.

Listen on your favorite podcatcher, watch on our YouTube, or check out ourhenhouse.org/ep856

Why is this person facing more than five years in prison for rescuing animals? — Species Unite Zoe Rosenberg faces up to five and a half years in prison after allegedly entering a California slaughterhouse and rescuing animals, a case that has drawn national attention to the treatment of farmed...

⚖️ Chair of 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐋𝐚𝐰𝐲𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐆𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝘈𝘯𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘭 𝘓𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵 analyzes the crazy criminal trial of #DXE activist Zoe Rosenberg, who faces 5 years in jail for rescuing 4 hens. www.speciesunite.com/news-stories...

🚨 Catch @alicediconcetto.bsky.social on the panel later today at “International Disputes in Animal Law – Dynamics of Global Conflict & Cooperation”.

⚖️The webinar is hosted by GW Law’s Animal Law Program.

📅 Oct 2 | 6–7pm CEST
🔗 Register → tinyurl.com/56kfurbd

AALDP Litigation Fellow Steffen Seitz in @lpeproject.bsky.social on the threat of conspiracy/RICO to social movements: "[C]onspiracy directly targets collective action & thus takes aim at the social ties & speech that make movements work. Today’s movements...may be more vulnerable than ever before."

Offsets are a flawed concept, both for fighting climate change and factory farms. In our latest blog, Senior Staff Attorney Kelsey Eberly breaks down why meat offsets are a false solution and why challenging Big Ag & empowering communities is the real route to change.
Read it➡️ farmstand.org/offsets

“This seems to be the smoking gun proving that our lawsuit challenging Alligator Alcatraz is entirely correct,” said Elise Bennett, Florida and Caribbean director. “This is a federal project being built with federal funds that’s required by federal law to go through a complete environmental review.

One less animal jail! For the past 2 years, we've represented Phil Demers, who was sued by the Seaquarium's parent company for documenting and blowing the whistle on the living conditions of the orca Tokitae, also known as Lolita. www.thedailybeast.com/miami-sea-pa...

The new EAT-Lancet report is out and I wrote about it -- and also what I saw at Climate Week NYC: An environmental movement still cozying up to Big Meat, and still unafraid to confront scientific consensus on food, agriculture, and livestock.

🌊⚖️ Meet Our Speed Moot Court Trainers & Judges

We are honoured to introduce Ms Amy P Wilson and Ms Hira Jaleel, who will serve as Trainers and Judges for the Online Speed Moot Court on Aquatic Animal Rights in the 2nd live CIARL course. 🐋

Register before 10 Oct: icare-animals.org/ciarl-course

Food systems are the #1 driver of environmental breakdown, public health crises & inequity, based on new EAT-Lancet report by 50+ experts in 35+ countries.

Findings:
❤️‍🩹 Prevent ~15M deaths/yr by shifting to this mostly plant-based diet
🌍 Food drives 5 of 6 breached planetary boundaries

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In this week's Hen Report, @jasminsinger.com & @marisul.bsky.social reflect on Jane Goodall's revolutionary legacy and why we must persist in animal advocacy despite setbacks. Listen now on your fav podcatcher, watch on our YouTube, or click ourhenhouse.org/ep854

I love this interview.

AI isn’t sucking rivers dry. Neither is your lawn. It’s agriculture. Farms use three quarters of our fresh water. That’s why the Colorado River is parched. That’s why the aquifers under California are overpumped. We’re drinking the earth, too.

Crazy idea -- what if we decided not to base our farm economy on growing soybeans for the global animal feed market, and instead focused on growing FOOD FOR PEOPLE.

At least a dozen pigs crowd close to the camera. They are all very similar in appearance, their bodies pressed together, and they are hard to count.

We filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump admin’s recent decision to abandon rules that would have stopped slaughterhouses and meat-processing plants from dumping of millions of pounds of pollutants into American waterways. 🧵

Learn more about our Environmental Health program ➡️ bit.ly/3KytEwd

H.R.4673, the “Save Our Bacon Act,” Could Jeopardize Hundreds of State Regulations New Legislative Analysis Finds - Harvard Law School - ALPP

A new Harvard ALPP report finds that H.R.4673, the “Save Our Bacon Act,” Could Jeopardize Hundreds of State Regulations.

The report includes an appendix with over 600 examples of potentially affected state laws and regulations. animal.law.harvard.edu/news-article...

Who could have prevented Trump's political prosecution of Comey? Trump; his advisors; & the grand jury. Who can prevent conviction and imprisonment? Judges & jurors. Who's ultimately responsible? Trump, Congressional Republicans & the 40% of Americans who support the authoritarian regime. Details👇

This is extremely poor framing. It is not a "taste for soya" destroying the Amazon, it's a taste for meat. The VAST majority of soy grown in Brazil is due to animal agriculture, but your article never mentions this fact.

Your readers are walking away with a poor understanding of this issue.

YouTube video by TED How to End Factory Farming | Lewis Bollard | TED

“Try finding any other issue that 88 percent of Americans can agree on today” – Lewis Bollard takes a calm, factual look at the moral crisis that is factory farming, pointing out that most people consider standard, everyday animal farming practices unacceptably cruel.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvLn...

YouTube video by Jeremy Loeb Investigator Gail Eisnitz's Memoir Will Make You See Animals How She Does

Gail Eisnitz, chief investigator at Humane Farming Association has a new memoir documenting her more than four decades exposing slaughterhouses and factory farms, all while dealing with a mysterious, undiagnozed visual processing disorder. Check out her incredible story below.

#animalrights

Greenpeace activists in cages confront UN livestock conference in call for just transition from industrial agriculture - Greenpeace International 90+ environment and development groups including Greenpeace, ActionAid, Oxfam and the Africa Food Sovereignty Alliance call for just transition from industrial agriculture at the FAO in Rome.

PRESS RELEASE: Greenpeace activists in cages confront UN livestock conference in Rome calling for a just transition from industrial agriculture.

90+ environment and development groups call on governments to urgently slash climate-wrecking agricultural emissions and protect vital ecosystems.

Meat is a leading emissions source – but few outlets report on it, analysis finds Sentient Media reveals less than 4% of climate news stories mention animal agriculture as source of carbon emissions

Meat is a leading emissions source – but few outlets report on it, analysis finds

Outrage mounts as Republicans in Congress move to protect pesticide makers from lawsuits Bayer, maker of Roundup weedkiller, founded group pushing to block cancer claim suits against pesticide makers

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

🎓 Registration closes on 10 October for the CIARL live course starting on 25 October 2025!

🌐 Thanks to Voiceless, we are offering scholarships to ensure everyone, everywhere can learn animal rights law and gain advocacy skills to create real impact for animals.

🔗 icare-animals.org/ciarl-course

Over 400,000 turkeys have been killed at South Dakota farms due to avian influenza. The state has become the primary hot spot for this season’s outbreak. As reported by the USDA, the virus has been identified in eight commercial flocks and one backyard flock in South Dakota in the past month.

YouTube video by Jeremy Loeb Activist, Former Political Prisoner Andy Stepanian

Andy Stepanian spent 3 years in prison, including in a top secret maximum security Communications Managment Unit or CMU, for his role in the SHAC campaign against animal testing. His story is fascinating, and goes way beyond SHAC. Listen below.

#politicalprisoner #animalrights #prisonreform

Big news from NIH: The new Standardized Organoid Modeling Center will develop lab-grown human organoids to reduce animal testing and speed drug discovery.

AI, robotics, and human cells will make organoid research more reliable and accessible to scientists and regulators nationwide.

www.nih.gov/som

A FarmSTAND branded graphic. Quote: Today, checkoff programs are little more than a funnel for billions of dollars to flow from hardworking farmers and ranchers into the pockets of agricultural trade and lobbying organizations. Quote is from FarmSTAND's Beef Checkoff Deep Dive Part One. Image of cows dressed as farmers in a funnel. Money falls out of the bottom of the funnel into the briefcase of a cow wearing a suit.

We exposed how the beef checkoff works and how its corruption harms small ranchers in the first part of our Deep Dive. Read it now to understand why the checkoff is such a problem, and stay tuned for Part Two, dropping next week.
Read it here ➡️ farmstand.org/checkoff

Is there anything we won't subject animals to for our own gain? 

Cows are 'cannulated' or 'fistulated' so that researchers can study how different types of food affect the rumen environment and the cow's ability to digest food 🙄 🤮

Tickets are available for our 2025 Annual Animal Rights Law Lecture! 🎟️

Join us for this free event on 15 October at Cambridge University's Faculty of Law. (1/3)