Program Term Archive
Farmed Animals
Animal Welfare in Upcoming Appropriations
Equines, Farmed AnimalsSpending 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...
Humane Transport of Farmed Animals Act Introduced
Farmed AnimalsIn 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...
AVMA Should Aver: Cramped Crates No Place for Pregnant Pigs
Farmed AnimalsThe 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...
Pork Industry’s Challenge to Sprinkler Requirement Fails
Press ReleaseSeptember 18, 2024Farmed AnimalsThe Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) is pleased that the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Standards Council has rejected an appeal filed by the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) and other national animal...
USDA’s Revised Food Label Guidelines Insufficient to Protect Consumers, Animals
Press ReleaseAugust 29, 2024Farmed AnimalsThe Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) is extremely disappointed by the revised meat and poultry guidelines released yesterday by the US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). Although the USDA...
Congress Urged Not to Use Taxpayer Money to Prop Up Dangerous Mink Farms
Press ReleaseJuly 25, 2024Farmed Animals, Terrestrial WildlifeToday, the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI), joined by 46 public health scientists, veterinarians, animal welfare and conservation organizations, and other experts in their respective fields, delivered a letter to leaders of the Agriculture...
New Research: Weak Enforcement of State Farmed Animal Welfare Laws Continues
Press ReleaseJuly 2, 2024Farmed AnimalsThe Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) released a new report today that documents how state-level farmed animal welfare laws continue to be minimally enforced, even though such laws could substantially improve the lives...
Decoding the Minds and Hearts of Animals: Dr. Temple Grandin Awarded AWI’s Schweitzer Medal
Farmed AnimalsDr. Temple Grandin’s pragmatic approach to giving farmed animals a life worth living has defined her advocacy efforts over the past half century. From squeezing herself into a stock chute...
AWI Report Details Feeble Enforcement of State Farmed Animal Welfare Laws
Farmed AnimalsLegal 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...
Bird Flu Affects Millions of Animals, Including Dairy Cows
Farmed AnimalsOver two years have passed since the first case of highly pathogenic avian influenza (or “bird flu”) was confirmed in the United States during the most recent outbreak, and the...