Farmed Animals

Act Now to Prevent Inhumane Octopus Farms in New York 

Thirty years of rigorous scientific research has shown octopuses to be highly intelligent and sentient beings. However, efforts to develop intensive commercial octopus farming overseas threaten to subject these animals...

Act Now to Protect State Laws Benefiting Farmed Animals 

In a shameful response to a growing number of state laws requiring improved housing conditions for farmed animals, two bills have been introduced in Congress: the Food Security and Farm...

Tell the USDA to Stop Incentivizing Heatstroke to Kill Farmed Animals 

Since early 2022, more than 186 million chickens, turkeys, and other farmed birds have been “depopulated” (killed en masse and disposed of) due to detection on farms of highly pathogenic...

Barn Fire Statistics By Year

Anti-whistleblower (“Ag-Gag”) Legislation

Undercover investigations by animal advocates are a critical tool in exposing the cruel realities of factory farming. However, instead of passing laws to ensure farmed animals are protected from abuse...

History of AWI’s Farmed Animal Standards

Promoting high-welfare, animal-sensitive standards of animal husbandry in farming is a major objective of the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI).

What You Can Do for Farmed Animals

Eat Less or No Meat, Dairy, and Eggs About 10 billion land animals are slaughtered for food in the United States each year. The average person in America consumes significantly...

Food Security and Farm Protection Act / Save Our Bacon Act

The dangerous and extremely controversial EATS Act was reintroduced in Congress as the Food Security and Farm Protection Act (S. 1326). Now, a similar bill, the so-called Save Our Bacon...

Farmed Animal Anti-Confinement Legislation

Millions of pigs, calves, and chickens are forced to spend their lives confined in spaces so small they can’t even turn around. Gestation crates, veal crates, and battery cages prevent...

Farmed Animal Law and Policy Interns

The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) works to reduce animal suffering and promote the welfare of all animals, including animals in agriculture. As a part of our mission, we promote humane...