September 01, 2020 Clinic As fire burns, activists sneak into Point Reyes to bring water to parched elk. Should they?
As darkness fell and a thick Pacific fog crept in over the Point Reyes peninsula on Sunday, a small band of animal activists waited for a National Park Service official to leave his check-post along Pierce Point Road.
August 13, 2020 Clinic USDA Fails to Require Humane Poultry Handling, Lawsuit Says
The Agriculture Department has neglected to require humane handling of poultry at federally inspected slaughterhouses for years, according to a lawsuit by animal protection groups
August 12, 2020 Clinic “The very test under the Endangered Species Act is supposed to be ‘What is the best available science?’”
Animal Law & Policy Clinic director Katherine Meyer describes what is at stake in SCOTUS Freedom of Information Act case brought by the Sierra Club
July 27, 2020 Clinic Harvard suggests FSIS go slowly on labeling ‘lab-grown’ meat and poultry
In some action on the petition front, USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) acknowledges a request from the Harvard Law School’s “Animal Law and Policy Clinic.” The Harvard animal law program submitted a petition on June 9 and FSIS on July 23 confirmed receipt of the request. Harvard wants FSIS to adopt a labeling approach for “cell-based” meat and poultry products that respects First Amendment commercial speech protections.