AWI recently submitted comments urging greater consideration of animal welfare in guidance documents issued by the Food and Drug Administration to developers of animals with intentional genomic alterations (IGAs). IGAs are changes made to the...

For the first time, several major US egg producers have committed to using a new technology called “in-ovo sexing” that can determine the sex of chicken embryos before they hatch. ( See AWI Quarterly, winter...

In May, Florida became the first US state to ban the sale and manufacture for sale of “cell-cultivated” meat (aka “lab-grown” meat; see AWI Quarterly, fall 2023). Shortly after, Alabama followed suit by enacting its...

February will mark four years of the United States battling the most significant animal health emergency in the country’s history: the continued spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI, aka bird flu). Since our last...

The unsustainability and cruelty involved in octopus farming prompted Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) to introduce the Opposing the Cultivation and Trade of Octopus Produced through Unethical Strategies (OCTOPUS) Act (S 4810)...

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...