'Personhood' chimpanzees retuned to owners, ending animal rights litigation.
In an exclusive interview, Larson talks about her work with these animals and the impact the litigation is having on her studies and research animals in general.
If you care about cruelty to animals, and the problems associated with factory farming, you should know more about Farm Sanctuary, an organization that runs two sanctuaries for abused farm animals; it works on legislation, litigation and education to help all farm animals.
"Ractopamine is a shining example of the new creative ways the meat industry finds to make animals suffer," said Danny Lutz, a litigation fellow at the Animal Legal Defense Fund.
Laurence Tribe, a Harvard Law School professor who supports animal rights, expressed misgivings about the litigation.
Jared Goodman, director of litigation for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, said pressure from animal rights groups pushed the cities of Los Angeles and Oakland to ban bull hooks, the tools used by circuses to train elephants.
The litigation was spearheaded by Steven Wise, a prominent animal rights lawyer and NhRP's founder, who spent years consulting with scientists, policy experts, and other lawyers to hone a strategy.
The litigation has been in the works since 2007, when animal rights attorney Steven Wise founded NhRP, an association of about 60 lawyers, scientists, and policy experts.
But observers of the city's real estate world agree that growing litigation on this front includes healthy people seeking to use this route to keep an animal under their roof.
This is complex litigation.
