The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI), the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), and Mercy For Animals (MFA) condemn the USDA’s plan, released last week, to allow pig slaughterhouses to kill pigs at “any speed deemed safe for food safety,” making animals vulnerable to rougher handling and to being butchered while still conscious.
Date created: January 22, 2018
Last updated: February 7, 2022
The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) condemn the USDA’s imminent plan to allow pig slaughterhouses to kill pigs at even faster speeds, making animals vulnerable to rougher handling and to being butchered while still conscious.
Date created: July 25, 2017
Last updated: February 2, 2022
The ASPCA® (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals®), the Animal Welfare Institute, The Humane Society of the United States, and the Humane Society Legislative Fund applaud the naming of Reps. Mike Fitzpatrick, R-PA, and Earl Blumenauer, D-OR, as the new co-chairs of the Congressional Animal Protection Caucus for the 114th Congress. The CAPC is a bipartisan caucus committed to raising awareness of animal welfare issues in Congress.
Date created: February 4, 2015
Last updated: February 2, 2022
Spending bills for the 2025 fiscal year are shaping up in Congress, and AWI is working to ensure animal welfare measures are included.
Date created: September 4, 2024
Last updated: September 13, 2024
The Animal Welfare Institute and Farm Sanctuary sued the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) today for failing to respond to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for department records related to the treatment of animals in US slaughter plants. The lawsuit is based on a 2016 amendment to FOIA that requires federal agencies to proactively post records that are subject to frequent requests.
Date created: August 23, 2018
Last updated: February 7, 2022
Today, The American Horse Council (AHC) and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) held a conference entitled "The Unwanted Horse Issue: What Now?"
Date created: January 23, 2009
Last updated: February 3, 2022
The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) and the National Black Farmers Association (NBFA) today launched a national partnership to help American horses in need by finding them homes on farms operated by NBFA members.
Date created: January 23, 2009
Last updated: February 3, 2022
The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) announced today the winners of its annual Christine Stevens Wildlife Award. Established in 2006, the Christine Stevens Wildlife Award provides grants of up to $10,000 to help fund innovative strategies for humane, non-lethal wildlife conflict management and study.
Date created: August 19, 2015
Last updated: February 2, 2022
On Monday, November 14, 2011, US Assistant Attorney General Laurie Robinson, who heads the US Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs, will present the Animal Welfare institute’s (AWI) Albert Schweitzer Medal to three outstanding prosecutors.
Date created: November 9, 2011
Last updated: February 9, 2024
The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) announced today the 2017 winners of its Christine Stevens Wildlife Award. Established in 2006, the Christine Stevens Wildlife Award provides grants of up to $10,000 to help fund studies on innovative and humane strategies for resolving wildlife conflicts and studying wildlife.
Date created: October 20, 2017
Last updated: February 2, 2022
Washington, DC—The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) announced today the winners of its Christine Stevens Wildlife Award. Established in 2006, the Christine Stevens Wildlife Award provides grants of up to $10,000 to help fund studies on innovative and humane strategies for resolving wildlife conflicts and studying wildlife.
Date created: August 23, 2016
Last updated: February 2, 2022
The Animal Welfare Institute officially announced today the winners of its annual Christine Stevens Wildlife Award. Established in 2006, the Christine Stevens Wildlife Award provides grants of up to $10,000 to help fund innovative strategies for humane, non-lethal wildlife conflict management and study.
Date created: October 7, 2014
Last updated: February 2, 2022
In a letter to Perdue CEO Jim Perdue released today, Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) President Cathy Liss demanded that the company end its use of a misleading label claiming that certain of its chicken products are 'Humanely Raised' and 'Raised Cage Free.' This February, Perdue introduced new product packaging bearing these claims for release in grocery stores.
Date created: May 11, 2010
Last updated: February 2, 2022
Last week the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) began posting on the agency’s website letters sent to slaughter plants found to be in violation of federal regulations governing the humane handling and slaughter of animals.
Date created: March 16, 2012
Last updated: February 2, 2022
For the first time in the history of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM)—the federal agency charged with protecting and managing wild horses in the United States—officials now claim that up to 30,000 horses currently in confinement may have to be "euthanized" to balance the agency’s budget.
Date created: March 31, 2009
Last updated: February 3, 2022
The Animal Welfare Institute is outraged by the killing of a gray whale in the Strait of Juan de Fuca by members of the Makah Tribe, condemning it as an illegal, cruel, and callous act that must not go unpunished.
Date created: January 23, 2009
Last updated: February 3, 2022
The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) announced today the establishment of the "Animal Welfare Institute Abandoned Horse Reward Fund." Under the program, individuals providing information leading to the arrest and conviction of anyone who abandons a horse in violation of state law will be rewarded with up to $1,000 by AWI.
Date created: August 3, 2009
Last updated: February 3, 2022
Today, the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) announced the seven recipients of its Christine Stevens Wildlife Award who are developing innovative, less intrusive wildlife study techniques and more humane methods of resolving conflicts between wild animals and humans.
Date created: December 12, 2018
Last updated: February 7, 2022
Today, the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) announced the six recipients of its Christine Stevens Wildlife Award who are developing innovative, less intrusive wildlife study techniques and more humane methods of resolving conflicts between wild animals and humans.
Date created: November 12, 2019
Last updated: January 18, 2024
On Monday, November 14, 2011, US Assistant Attorney General Laurie Robinson, who heads the US Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs, presented the Animal Welfare Institute’s (AWI) Albert Schweitzer Medal to three outstanding prosecutors.
Date created: November 29, 2011
Last updated: February 9, 2024
In special recognition of April as Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Month, the Animal Welfare Institute announces the launch of a new feature on its website. The information and resources available through the Animals and Family Violence page are designed for families experiencing abuse against a spouse, child, elderly family member, or companion animals, as well as for the domestic violence shelter personnel, humane societies, law enforcement, and others who provide services to families in crisis.
Date created: April 12, 2011
Last updated: January 31, 2024
The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) has partnered with the National Head Start Association (NHSA) to make available copies of two of its children’s publications, Kamie Cat's Terrible Night and Pablo Puppy’s Search for the Perfect Person, to Head Start classrooms and centers nationwide.
Date created: April 15, 2015
Last updated: February 2, 2022
The Animal Welfare Institute strongly opposes three proposed rules released today by the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) that would undermine vital sections of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The rules impair protections for threatened species, the safeguarding of critical habitat and the consultation process between federal agencies. This USFWS action follows a slew of recent attacks by both the agency and Congress on this remarkably successful and popular conservation law.
Date created: July 19, 2018
Last updated: February 7, 2022
In a letter sent Monday to Florida Gov. Rick Scott regarding the Ocala teacher accused of drowning animals in front of his students, the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI), the Association of Prosecuting Attorneys, and the Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) urged the governor to reassign the animal cruelty case to another Florida state attorney. In May, Forest High School teacher Dewie Brewton allegedly trapped and, with student participation, drowned two raccoons and an opossum. He suspected that one of the raccoons had killed eight chickens who were being raised by Brewton’s agriculture class.
Date created: August 1, 2018
Last updated: February 7, 2022
The Animal Welfare Institute is grateful that a massive farm bill loaded with provisions that would have reversed gains in animal welfare and weakened endangered species protections was defeated Friday in the US House of Representatives by a vote of 198-213.
Date created: May 18, 2018
Last updated: February 7, 2022