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Mariann Sullivan
@marisul.bsky.social
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Co-host of Our Hen House podcast and host of Animal Law Podcast. Lawyer, teacher, animal lover.
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Our Hen House @ourhenhouse.org · 1d
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
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⚖️ NLGNYC Animal Rights Committee @nlgnyc-animal.bsky.social · 7d
⚖️ 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...
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...
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The European Institute for Animal Law & Policy @animallaweurope.bsky.social · 6d
🚨 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
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Animal Activist Legal Defense Project @aaldp-du.bsky.social · 6d
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."
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The LPE Project @lpeproject.bsky.social · 9d
People recently targeted or threatened with RICO charges:

-antifa
-Soros
-people protesting Trump's dinner
-anti-ICE protesters
-Sanctuary city officials
-pro-Palestine protesters
-animal activists
-Stop Cop City activists

Steffen Seitz explains why this is especially bad for social movements.
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 9d
Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination, President Trump and his allies have repeatedly threatened to use conspiracy laws against liberal groups, protesters, and political opponents.

Today, Steffen Seitz explains what makes conspiracy law such a salient threat to social movements.
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FarmSTAND @farmstand.bsky.social · 6d
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
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 6d
“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.
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Animal Activist Legal Defense Project @aaldp-du.bsky.social · 6d
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...
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Kenny Torrella @kennytorrella.bsky.social · 5d
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.
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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 5d
🌊⚖️ 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
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Nicholas D Carter @nicholasdcarter.bsky.social · 5d
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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Our Hen House @ourhenhouse.org · 6d
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
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Mariann Sullivan @marisul.bsky.social · 11d
I love this interview.
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Our Hen House @ourhenhouse.org · 12d
On the Animal Law Podcast, @marisul.bsky.social speaks with attorneys from @thefireorg.bsky.social and UT Law School about this shocking case, where showing factory farm footage led to arrest.

Listen now: ourhenhouse.org/alp124
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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 9d
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.
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Garrett Broad @garrettbroad.bsky.social · 9d
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.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10d
“..Six months after the president’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs .., U.S. soybean farmers are learning that China — long the predominant market for their product — doesn’t need them anymore.”

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 9d
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
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.
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Harvard University Animal Law & Policy Program @harvardanimallaw.bsky.social · 9d
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...
H.R.4673, the “Save Our Bacon Act,” Could Jeopardize Hundreds of State Regulations New Legislative Analysis Finds - Harvard Law School - ALPP
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Michael C. Dorf @dorfonlaw.bsky.social · 9d
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👇
Wait, Can He Actually Do That? Part 21: The Comey Indictment
It has been over a month since my last entry in this series , but that is hardly because there has been any shortage of legally dubious act...
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Björn Jóhann @bjornjohann.bsky.social · 9d
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.
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Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 9d
How the world’s taste for soya is eating Brazil’s Amazon
How the world’s taste for soya is eating Brazil’s Amazon
Cultivation of the crop has made a few wealthy but at a huge cost to untouched forest as it spreads across vast areas of former wilderness
www.theguardian.com
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Anima International @anima-int.bsky.social · 9d
“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...
How to End Factory Farming | Lewis Bollard | TED
YouTube video by TED
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Empty The Cages @emptythecages.bsky.social · 10d
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
Investigator Gail Eisnitz's Memoir Will Make You See Animals How She Does
YouTube video by Jeremy Loeb
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 9d
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.
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.
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Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 11d
Meat is a leading emissions source – but few outlets report on it, analysis finds
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
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Lyle Lewis @race2extinct.bsky.social · 11d
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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
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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 13d
🎓 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
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Mercy For Animals @mercyforanimals.org · 13d
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.
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