Legal Impact For Chickens
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Legal Impact For Chickens is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between December 28, 2021 and June 18, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “Legal Impact For Chickens , $72,000, to help kickstart their project of suing factory farms”; “Legal Impact For Chickens has since raised $800,000”; “Legal Impact For Chickens is hiring another litigator”. It most often appears alongside 1DaySooner, African Swine Fever, Alice Evans.
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- Category: Organizations
- Mention count: 3
- Issue count: 3
- First seen: December 28, 2021
- Last seen: June 18, 2025
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Related Pages
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- 1DaySooner (3 shared issues)
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- African Swine Fever (3 shared issues)
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- Alice Evans (3 shared issues)
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- ALLFED (3 shared issues)
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- Australia (3 shared issues)
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- ClearerThinking.org (3 shared issues)
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- Crowdfight (3 shared issues)
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- Good Science Project (3 shared issues)
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- Lars Doucet (3 shared issues)
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- Metaculus (3 shared issues)
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- Nathan Young (3 shared issues)
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- RaDVaC (3 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
Legal Impact For Chickens, $72,000, to help kickstart their project of suing factory farms that violate animal cruelty laws or otherwise expose themselves to legal action. They write: "If we sue a company that kills 100 million chickens a year, then success would mean incrementally improving the lives of a significant number (perhaps 80 million) of these chickens". Alene, their founder, graduated from Harvard Law School and is a veteran of animal welfare campaigns at PETA, ALDF, and the Good Food Institute. My review team said this was an unusually high-impact animal welfare opportunity; if you’d like to donate too, you can do so at https://www.legalimpactforchickens.org/donate .
25: Sue Factory Farms That Are Illegally Abusing Chickens (8/10) Legal Impact For Chickens has since raised $800,000 (more than 10x their original ACX grant), is now a two-employee organization, and has filed its first lawsuit, Smith v. Vachris, which has received coverage in Washington Post, FOX Business, etc (if we rely on coverage in FOX to call out abusive chicken farmers, is that the FOX guarding the henhouse?) They are looking to hire another litigator, see ad here.
Legal Impact For Chickens is hiring another litigator - if interested, see their job ad.
Inline links: see their job ad
Legal Impact for Chickens (LIC) is so grateful to ACX for launching us, and to all the ACX readers who have supported us! Thus far, LIC has filed four lawsuits: (1) Smith v. Vachris, the shareholder derivative case against Costco’s executives for chicken neglect, which was mentioned in The Washington Post, Fox Business, CNN Business, Meatingplace, and a viral TikTok. (2) LIC v. Case Farms, a cruelty suit against a major KFC supplier, which is currently pending before the North Carolina Court of Appeals. (3) Animal Outlook v. Harvey’s Market, which successfully stopped a DC butcher shop from selling foie gras. And (4) LIC v. Alexandre, a cruelty suit against an abusive dairy, which is currently pending before a California court. LIC has also sponsored an undercover investigation of poultry-giant Foster Farms, leading to a currently ongoing sheriff’s-office investigation. LIC got a California caterer to drop foie gras with a simple cease-and-desist letter. And LIC established a new potential avenue to create consequences for animal abuse: through an amicus brief at sentencing for the violation of another law. LIC also received a recommendation from Animal Charity Evaluators!
I always ask if there’s any other way I can help these charities. Legal Impact For Chickens wants me to advertise that if any of you are in the poultry industry and want to turn whistleblower, you should get in touch with them.
Inline links: get in touch with them