alene
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Hi, fellow EAs! Thank you so much for caring about making the world better. My name is Alene, and I'm excited to meet you. I run the litigation nonprofit, Legal Impact for Chickens. We sue companies and executives that abuse animals on factory farms.
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Hii! Thank you so much for this question! :-)
Legal Impact for Chickens would use additional funding by hiring our first administrative employee, so the three lawyers on staff can dedicate our time more fully to litigation!
Legal Impact for Chickens is a litigation nonprofit dedicated to making factory-farm cruelty a liability: http://legalimpactforchickens.org/. We sue companies that abuse animals on factory farms and in slaughterhouses.
We are hoping to raise $204,000 by the end of the year, to allow us to expand our capacity.
And we just got recommended by Animal Charity Evaluators!!
If you're interested in donating, please speak to me (Alene), or go to https://www.legalimpactforchickens.org/donate.
Thank you to the EA Community for all your support! 🐥⚖️
Thank you so much for thinking this through and posting this. It makes a lot of sense, and it's concerning.
Thank you for your support Eli! I think derivative suits definitely are still a strong vehicle to protect animals. Neither the court nor the defendants said anything that would cause us to become less bullish on derivative suits. And the court agreed that the board members had knowledge of Costco's treatment of animals, which was one of the things we were trying to prove in order to show why this is the board's responsibility and thus why a derivative suit is appropriate. Unfortunately, however, the court didn't agree that we had shown a violation of the criminal law against animal neglect. (Of course, we still think that we did show illegal animal neglect. So I think this was a failure on my part to properly convey why the evidence constituted neglect.)
The court left open one avenue, which was to send a formal demand letter to Costco's board, asking the board to change its treatment of chickens and sue Costco's executives. So we did that: https://www.legalimpactforchickens.org/costco-demand. And we are waiting for a response.
I agree we need to somehow update our website. I just haven't gotten around to figuring out the best way to present this information. . . . But you bringing it up is a helpful nudge!
Thanks Jason!!