“The Law Is on the Animals’ Side: Legal Impact for Chickens’ Room for Funding & Impact (2025)” by alene

TL;DR: Legal Impact for Chickens (LIC) is a nonprofit law firm fighting factory-farm cruelty. In our four years in existence, LIC has: proven in court that animal protection organizations like LIC have the power to enforce California's animal cruelty law against ag companies, prompted California's largest poultry producer to announce it has made animal-welfare reforms, and stopped a DC butcher shop from selling foie gras. We’re now fundraising $690,000 to fill our gap for our 2026 planned budget of $2 million. (That said, the full amount LIC could potentially absorb is uncapped within a reasonable basis. Additional funding would allow us to scale faster by hiring more lawyers and litigating more lawsuits at once. LIC currently has more promising lawsuit ideas than resources to pursue them.) I. Why sue over animal cruelty? In the long run, companies and individuals benefit by following the law. But they don’t always see this in the short run. Experience shows that companies and executives will follow a law if—and only if—someone actually enforces that law. For instance, animal cruelty and neglect are crimes. Yet a LIC-sponsored investigation caught California's largest poultry producer driving forklifts over birds. This presumably occurred because [...] ---Outline:(01:12) I. Why sue over animal cruelty?(01:58) II. What we've accomplished recently(05:16) III. Short Timelines:(05:49) IV. Potential criticism: Is there a risk to improving farmed animal welfare?(08:13) V. LICs funding gap and plans for growth(09:03) Thank you for considering LIC! --- First published: November 17th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/XZFnSWCWob5Wfq6yk/the-law-is-on-the-animals-side-legal-impact-for-chickens --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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