AWI Quarterly » 2011 Winter

I was in high school when John Gleiber met AWI’s founding president, Christine Stevens, at a dinner party. Christine invited John to her home the next day. It was 1975 and John was offered a job over tea. He became one of an intimate group of employees who worked diligently in the basement of Christine’s home.

If you would like to help assure AWI’s future through a provision in your will, this general form of bequest is suggested.

On November 7, 2010, two weeks after his 91st birthday, long-time AWI colleague and whale advocate Robbins Wolcott Barstow, Jr. died at his home in Wethersfield, Connecticut.

President Obama signed the Animal Crush Video Prohibition Act on December 9.

In a large enclosed yard in a small town in southern Nepal, a man stands over a young water buffalo, a heavy sword held high in both hands.

When California voters passed Proposition 2 two years ago, they thought they were banning the confinement of egg-laying hens in tiny "battery cages."

Disasters like floods, roof collapses and fires are not uncommon occurrences on factory farms. And given the large numbers of animals confined on these operations, such emergencies can kill tens - even hundreds - of thousands of living beings in a matter of minutes.