Animal protection laws can only help when they are enforced. Attorney Vanessa Shakib joins me, Cheryl Moss, to discuss how legal advocacy can expose hidden suffering, challenge unlawful business practices, and hold government agencies accountable.
As co-founder and co-director of Advancing Law for Animals, Vanessa uses civil litigation to protect animals exploited in research and industrial food production. She explains how animals' legal status as property creates obstacles and how her organization uses existing laws to bring their interests before the courts.
Our conversation covers taxpayer-funded animal experimentation, oversight of foreign laboratories, a challenge to a USDA enforcement policy, and litigation involving Cedar the goat. Vanessa also discusses applying California's unfair competition law to cases involving animal laboratories and factory farming.
You'll hear why enforcement matters alongside stronger legislation, what gives Vanessa hope about the next generation of animal attorneys, and how people without legal training can support this work.
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