Mulard duck on a foie gras production farm

October 15, 2025 , Written Testimony Submitted on Massachusetts Foie Gras Legislation

Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals

September 29, 2025 , H.R.4673, the “Save Our Bacon Act,” Could Jeopardize Hundreds of State Regulations New Legislative Analysis Finds

For Immediate Release: 29 September 2025

August 20, 2024 , Professor Stilt co-authors letter in support of US Octopus Act

Source: Jo-Anne McArthur/ We Animals Media

July 21, 2024 Zoonotic Disease Threats Posed By Animal Industries Uncovered in Comprehensive New Report

Animal markets and other forms of animal industries pose serious risk of future pandemics and current regulation does not sufficiently protect public health against these threats, concludes a new 15 country study by Harvard Law School and New York University. The report documents the scope of these risks and calls for better regulation of animal industries to prevent disease outbreaks.

November 13, 2023 Thirty Law Professors Warn Congress of Harms of EATS Act

For immediate release: November 13, 2023

September 18, 2023 “The class gave me hope and optimism… about how we can collectively seek justice for animals, which I translated into ideas for my design proposal.”

Rebecca Shen was one of several cross-registrants who took Professor Kristen Stilt's animal law class this past spring. The class helped inform her Master's thesis project design, which is to turn feedlots in California into cow sanctuaries. Here, she shares more about her motivations for her work and for taking the class.