Victory: Cruelty Lawsuit Against Alexandre Dairy Farm Wins Right to Proceed!!

By Alene @ 2025-06-05T00:52 (+1)

Hi FAST Friends!!!

I have exciting news!

A California court has ruled that LIC's cruelty lawsuit can proceed against well-known dairy operation Alexandre Family Farm, which supplies Whole Foods and other large grocers. 

Legal Impact for Chickens (LIC) is the plaintiff in the lawsuit. We allege that Alexandre workers pour table salt into cows’ eyes, drag disabled cows across concrete, and starve cattle. 

The lawsuit followed Farm Forward's April 2024 exposé revealing “systemic deception, cruelty, and animal abuse” at Alexandre Family Farm. Farm Forward documented and released those findings with the help of rancher whistleblowers who came forward to bring these activities to light. 

The Humboldt County Superior Court's well-reasoned eight-page ruling affirmed LIC’s power, as a California society for the prevention of cruelty to animals (SPCA), to prevent cruelty through civil litigation: 

“[T]he Court finds that an SPCA filing and prosecuting a civil action to enjoin violations of animal cruelty laws . . . is one of the multiple avenues for the enforcement of California’s animal cruelty laws.”

We hope other companies that abuse animals will look at this and start to rethink their behavior.

Alexandre is also the subject of a separate federal class action alleging that it falsely represented Alexandre Family Farm products as “humane.” 

LIC's Equal Justice Fellow, Isabella Nilsson, did the oral argument. She crushed it.

Thank you to everyone in FAST who helped make this happen in various ways. <3 <3 <3 Here's to standing up against cruelty.

Sincerely,

Alene & LIC