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.”
April 08, 2025 GOP Senators Renew Effort to Upend California Animal Protections
A 2023 Harvard Law School analysis of Senator Ernst’s bill—known commonly then as the “Ending Agricultural Trade Suppression Act” or “EATS Act” —found it had the potential to nullify “over a thousand state laws” regulating the production and sale of agricultural products.
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.