Animal Rights Violations in Slaughterhouses: Investigating and Litigating Abuse
How can animal advocates use the law to challenge unlawful violence and systemic abuse against animals in slaughterhouses, especially where legal protections exist on paper, but enforcement fails in practice?
In this session of ICARE’s Litigating and Legislating for Animal Rights seminar series, we will explore how investigations, legal complaints, strategic litigation, and regulatory pressure can be used to expose abuses in slaughterhouses and push for accountability.
The conversation will focus on practical advocacy questions: how activists, whistleblowers and researchers document unlawful practices against farmed animals, how evidence can support legal action against perpetrators, how advocates navigate weak enforcement and institutional resistance, and what legal strategies may help produce consequences that go beyond symbolic compliance.
Bringing together perspectives from France (L214) and Latin America (Animal Law Focus), this seminar will examine how the law can serve as a tool for accountability and systemic change in one of the most violent and least transparent sites of animal exploitation.
This event will be held live on Zoom and will include 60 minutes of moderated conversation by Dr Anna Caramuru P. Aubert, followed by 30 minutes of audience Q&A.
Seminar guests
Caroline Lanty has been a member of the Paris Bar since 2005 and has acted for L214 since 2008, litigating across France against slaughterhouses and farms alleged to have breached animal protection rules.
L214 is a French animal rights organisation focused on animals used for food; since 2008, it has made public more than 175 investigations into farming, transport, and slaughter, combining filmed investigations with legal and public advocacy to expose systemic abuse.
Sabina Bravo Rebolledo is a Chilean animal rights advocate and the Founder and Executive Director of Animal Law Focus, an organisation driving legal change for farmed animals in the Global South. She leads investigations, strategic litigation, and policy advocacy to close enforcement gaps and push for systemic change. Her work centres on making the legal system a tool for visibility, accountability, and transformation in the animal agriculture industry.
Animal Law Focus's work includes analysing public data and identifying serious and repeated violations on farms and in slaughterhouses to demand sanctions, stronger enforcement, and institutional change.
This conversation will be especially relevant for those working on farmed animal investigations, strategic litigation, legal advocacy, or enforcement gaps in animal protection. It offers a practical opportunity to learn how animal advocates are using the law to challenge violence against animals in slaughterhouses.
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