Program Term Archive
Farmed Animals
Out of Sight
Farmed AnimalsIn Gail Eisnitz’s memoir, Out of Sight: An Undercover Investigator’s Fight for Animal Rights and Her Own Survival, she recounts a 40-year career working to understand and expose the gruesome truth...
Titus Reintroduces Humane Transport of Farmed Animals Act as New AWI Report Reveals Feeble Enforcement of Welfare Violations
Press ReleaseSeptember 10, 2025Farmed AnimalsToday, US Rep. Dina Titus (D-NV) reintroduced the Humane Transport of Farmed Animals Act to improve conditions for livestock transported across the United States. The bill would require federal officials to develop...
Mink VIRUS Act
Farmed AnimalsThe bipartisan “Mink: Vectors for Infection Risk in the United States Act” (Mink VIRUS Act) would end the farming of mink for fur, after a one-year phase-out period, and establish...
Torching Local Efforts to Prevent Barn Fires
Farmed AnimalsAWI has reported extensively on barn fires, which subject hundreds of thousands of animals to horrific deaths each year. To address this problem and increase fire protections for animals on...
Rising Tide of US Opposition to Octopus Farming
Farmed Animals, Marine WildlifeEfforts to protect octopuses from commercial farming continue, with legislation proposed this year in several states to prohibit octopus farming and the sale of farmed octopus products. Campaigns by animal...
Fed Bill Aims to Force-Feed States with Factory Farm Products
Farmed AnimalsAs Iowa state lawmakers seek to shut down scrutiny of the state’s abundant factory farms, one of their US senators is trying to make sure no other state can enact farmed...
AWI Report: Absence of Enforcement is Compounding the Cruelty at American Slaughter Plants
Farmed AnimalsScientists and philosophers call it the “meat paradox”—a type of cognitive dissonance that can occur among people who want to eat meat but not kill animals. The unfortunate reality, however,...
Stifling Scrutiny to Stymie Reforms
Farmed AnimalsStates have repeatedly passed laws that seek to criminalize undercover investigations of abuse and other animal welfare issues on factory farms. Although these “ag-gag” laws have been repeatedly struck down...
New Poll: Consumers Overwhelmingly Support Meaningful Standards for “Humanely Raised” Food Label
Press ReleaseMay 30, 2025Farmed AnimalsEighty-eight percent of American consumers believe that claims such as “humanely raised” or “sustainably farmed” on meat and poultry products should be based on meaningful, measurable standards, according to a newly...
New Research: USDA Fails to Pursue Prosecutions of Slaughter Plants, Despite Repeat Violations
Press ReleaseMay 22, 2025Farmed AnimalsRepeat violators of the federal Humane Methods of Slaughter Act (HMSA) continue to escape meaningful enforcement by the US Department of Agriculture, resulting in continued animal cruelty and suffering, according...