The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Technical Committee on Animal Housing—the body that oversees development and revisions of the Fire and Life Safety in Animal Housing Facilities Code (NFPA 150)—has taken a monumental step toward...

Following decades of campaigning by animal protection organizations, a ban has been enacted on export of livestock for slaughter from Great Britain to destinations outside Great Britain, Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands, and the Isle...

In Hawai‘i, regulations are now in place to protect cattle, sheep, goats, and other farmed animals transported via barge between the state’s islands. Governor Green signed off on the rules nearly a year after the...

The American Veterinary Medical Association develops and endorses dozens of policies on a range of issues, including several that relate to farmed animals. These policies are important because, in addition to functioning as the organization’s...

Kicked, beaten, exposed to extreme temperatures and weather—all too often, animals in slaughter plants are severely mistreated before they are killed. In many cases, such incidents could be prosecuted under state animal cruelty laws, but...

Spending bills for the 2025 fiscal year are shaping up in Congress, and AWI is working to ensure animal welfare measures are included. The Senate Agriculture Appropriations report includes first-of-its-kind language directing the US Department...

In June, Rep. Dina Titus (D-NV) introduced the Humane Transport of Farmed Animals Act (HR 8699) to improve conditions for livestock transported across the United States. The bill would prohibit interstate transport of livestock who...

In the Northern Rocky Mountains, ranchers raising livestock on public lands often advocate the use of lethal control measures to protect their livestock and control large carnivores. While large carnivore attacks on livestock are far...

Legal protections for farmed animals in the United States are few and far between—especially while the animals remain on farms, prior to being transported to slaughter. No federal law explicitly regulates the on-farm treatment of...

Mid-May marked the one-year anniversary of a rulemaking petition filed by AWI and allies asking the US Department of Agriculture to require the installation of cameras inside metal cages used to lower pigs into CO...