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Reading/Film Group

SALDF occasionally meets in the Public Interest Community Center to discuss animal law articles or watch animal rights documentaries, films, and TV shows. Everyone is welcome to attend. Articles and announcements are sent to the SALDF email list.

Past meetings have included:

• Peter Singer and Richard Posner, "Animal Rights"
• Steven Best and Anthony J. Nocella II, "Behind the Mask: Uncovering the ALF" (link to .pdf)
• Jen Girgen, "The Historical and Contemporary Prosecution of Animals" (link to .pdf)
• Gary Francione, "Animals as Property"
• Screening of The Simpsons, "Lisa the Vegetarian"

Pro Bono Animal Law

• SALDF is helping Carter Dillard, the staff attorney at Compassion Over Killing, on a suit filed against members of the egg industry. Carter came to Stanford last October to give a talk on false advertising suits against animal exploiters. If that talk piqued your interest, this is a great opportunity to get involved. We'll be suing over the "Animal Care Certified" label on most egg cartons. The Better Business Bureau has already determined those labels to be misleading and deceptive, yet producers refuse to remove them. Egg-laying hens are probably the most exploited of all animals, including veal calves. More information on the suit (and the poor treatment of hens) is available at
  www.cok.net/feat/egglawsuit.phphttp://www.cok.net/feat/egglawsuit.php
  If you'd like to pitch in (and get credit towards pro bono certification when you graduate), just let me know.

Animal Law Class Advocacy

• Wrote letter to Stanford Student Liaison Committee on new faculty hires, requesting an animal law professor.
• Lobbied for an animal law class at SLS.

Letter Writing

• Sent letters to California Senate and Assembly Business and Professions Committees and other representatives, encouraging support for SB1520, the senate bill banning foie gras.
• Sent letter to California Senate Natural Resources Committee, encouraging rejection of SB1434, the senate bill to allow civilian killings of cottontail rabbits who eat shrubbery.
• Sent letters to Governor Schwarzenegger urging signing of the bill to ban foie gras, and the bill to ban declawing of large cats.
• Submitted comments on proposed USDA Animal Welfare Act Regulations
• Sent letters to Senators Boxer and Feinstein encouraging the rejection of the Craig Amendment to the spending bill which would have exempted factory farms from toxic reporting obligations.
• Sent letters to Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors discouraging allowance of leghold traps for coyote control.