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Farm Animal Welfare

We support efforts to end factory farming and improve the lives of animals confined on factory farms.

 

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About the Fund

Team

Partners

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Tens of billions of animals live in awful conditions on factory farms, but only a tiny fraction of total giving goes toward helping them. This means there are many promising and underfunded ways to help farm animals, and we aim to find the most impactful opportunities among them. 

Our strategy focuses on four key areas:

  • Advocating for reforms to industrial farming systems. We fund advocacy to end the worst factory farm practices on land and sea. Our priorities include eliminating battery cages for hens, reforming the genetics of chickens raised for meat, and setting welfare standards for farmed fish.
  • Funding scientific research that could reduce the suffering of farm animals. We fund research to accelerate the development of new humane technologies, like in ovo sexing to end the killing of male chicks in the egg industry.
  • Expanding the global farm animal welfare movement. We fund work to build the global movement of people seeking corporate and legislative reforms for farm animals, especially in emerging economies, where the majority of the world’s farmed animals live.
  • Accelerating the development of alternatives to animal products. We fund advocacy to accelerate the development and adoption of plant-based and cultivated products that can reduce growing demand for factory-farmed meat, dairy and eggs.

More information about our team:

Grantee Wins

  • Cage-free reform

    Thanks to campaigns largely led by our grantees, over 3,000 companies globally have committed to stop using eggs from hens confined to cages. As a result, 250 million more hens are cage-free in Europe and the U.S. than in 2013.

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  • Welfare standards in Europe

    Advocates have secured over 1,800 animal welfare pledges from major food companies across Europe.

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  • Fish farm certification

    Three of the world’s largest fish farm certifiers have adopted new welfare standards developed by our grantees. Once fully implemented, these standards will improve the lives of roughly 4 billion fish at any given time.

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  • Alternative protein development

    Over the past few years, governments and advocates have collaborated to put forward nearly $1 billion in funding for alternative proteins through grants for research and infrastructure.

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Research & Updates

  • History of Philanthropy

    A Case Study on Corporate Campaigns for Farm Animal Welfare

    In recent decades, the farm animal welfare movement has improved conditions for hundreds of millions of animals through corporate campaigns. A new case study examines how this transformation occurred and what factors enabled its success.

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  • Farm Animal Welfare Newsletter

    The Protein Problem

    People can’t get enough protein. This is bad news for animals, who supply two thirds of the protein Americans eat. It’s especially bad for the smallest animals — chicken, fish, and shrimp — who happen to be the most protein-dense.

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  • Podcast

    Artificial Meat Is Harder Than Artificial Intelligence

    For decades, innovation in the meat industry has actually made the conditions for animals worse. Can the next few decades of tech reverse this pattern?

    Listen to the podcast

  • Farm Animal Welfare Newsletter

    Ten Big Wins in 2024 for Farmed Animals

    Progress for factory-farmed animals is far too slow. But it is happening. Practices that once seemed permanent are now on a slow path to extinction. And animals who were once ignored are finally seeing reforms, by the billions.

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