Animal Legal Defense Fund v. Foster Poultry Farms

Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) filed a lawsuit in California Superior Court alleging that a chicken slaughterhouse’s use of millions of gallons of groundwater was unreasonable in violation of Article X, Section 2, of the California Constitution. ALDF alleged that the water use violated the Constitution for multiple reasons, including that “California is plagued with drought that is exacerbated by the effects of climate change, and there exists an ever-increasing need for water conservation,” and that the state of existing water resources was “dire” and would continue to be worsened by climate change.