April 29, 2025 Program Lab Animals Face Being Euthanized as Trump Cuts Research
Ann Linder, an Associate Director at the Animal Law & Policy Program at Harvard Law School, worries that the fate of many lab animals will come down to the “whims and temperaments” of individual researchers and lab employees. "Without oversight, some of those decisions will be poor ones, and many will be made out of callous necessity, without regard for the welfare of the animals in question.”
March 14, 2025 Animal Markets Open Again Post Bird-Flu
"The same qualities that define them as a live animal market also make them really high risk sites for zoonotic transmission," said Ann Linder, Associate Director of Policy and Research at Harvard's Animal Law & Policy Program.
March 14, 2025 Program Why Does New York City have Around 70 Live Animal Markets?
Live poultry markets create ideal conditions for this “zoonotic” transmission, according to Ann Linder, Associate Director of Policy and Research at Harvard Law School’s Animal Law and Policy Program.
November 20, 2024 Program What Trump’s Return to Office Could Mean for Animals
“The federal government dictates a lot about the lives of all different kinds of animals,” said Ann Linder, Associate Director at Harvard University’s Animal Law & Policy Program, “whether those are wild animals living free in nature, whether those are farmed animals living in intense confinement, whether those are monkeys or beagles in research laboratories.”