As the COVID-19 pandemic draws new attention to industrial-scale livestock agriculture, animal welfare groups are criticizing the way healthy farm animals are killed. The COVID-19 pandemic is drawing ...

February 22-28, 2026 is National Justice for Animals Week. It’s an important time for people to reconsider how legal systems treat animals. In most countries, the law still views animals as property ...

Recent data analysis conducted by a human rights advocacy organization found that nearly a dozen international finance institutions directed over $3 billion to animal agriculture in 2023. The majority ...

BAKU, Azerbaijan— A new analysis by the Center for Biological Diversity and World Animal Protection found that a just transition away from industrial animal agriculture is a critical part of achieving ...

More and more consumers are seeking to avoid products from “factory farms”—where animals are kept in abysmal conditions. Such consumers often look for animal-raising claims on packaging labels that ...

Animal welfare reforms in the European Union are a step closer and could include pathways for alt-meat production, new import requirements and welfare labelling on meat and dairy products. A special ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has released standards for animal products to use the “organic label,” a move applauded by Animal Wellness Action and the Center for a Humane Economy. After two ...

A new study of animals raised on industrial farms raises serious questions about public health and the effects of those farms on rural communities and on soil productivity. The study was conducted by ...

Washington, DC — Today, over 300 local, state and national advocacy organizations sent a letter to the House and Senate Agriculture Committee Chairs and Ranking Members, endorsing the Farm System ...

Alabama’s ban on the sale of cultivated meat goes into effect this month, with violators facing a $500 fine and up to three months in jail. It’s a stunningly anti-free market sop to the in-state meat ...

Volunteers with the American Society for the Prevention of cruelty to Animals removed 170 dogs from a breeder in Manly, Iowa in 2018. The dogs were found in “appalling and overcrowded conditions,” ...

Although the United Nations Climate Change Conference, known as COP26, in Glasgow is fast approaching, it’s already clear that the scope of proposed solutions is far outweighed by the scale of the ...