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Farmed Animals
Animal Welfare Institute Announces 2016 Christine Stevens Wildlife Award Winners
Press ReleaseAugust 23, 2016Equines, Farmed Animals, Terrestrial WildlifeThe Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) announced today the winners of its Christine Stevens Wildlife Award. Established in 2006, the Christine Stevens Wildlife Award provides grants of up to $10,000 to help...
Coalition, 120,000+ Supporters Band Together to Improve the Certified Organic Label
Press ReleaseJuly 6, 2016Farmed AnimalsA coalition of animal, environmental, and consumer protection organizations submitted a joint comment today to the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) on its proposed rule to amend animal welfare requirements under the Certified Organic...
A Brighter Future for Egg-Laying Hens
Farmed AnimalsLaying hens belong on pasture where they can spend their day exploring and scratching in the grasses for insects, dust-bathing in the earth, stretching their wings, socializing with other hens,...
APHIS Takes AWI’s Advice on Improving Animal Export Conditions
Farmed AnimalsIn 2011, after several reports of animals shipped from the United States dying during arduous journeys overseas, AWI petitioned the US Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service...
AWI Releases Report on Poultry Slaughter
Farmed AnimalsAWI’s report, The Welfare of Birds at Slaughter in the United States, describes the results of the first-ever survey of federal government oversight of the manner in which birds raised for...
Olive Garden Urged to Step to the Plate for People, Animals, and the Planet
Farmed AnimalsThe food industry impacts almost every sector of society. When food is produced irresponsibly, it can negatively impact workers, animals, and the environment. Animals are intensively confined by the billions,...
Slowing Growth to Improve Animal Welfare
Farmed AnimalsPoultry engineered to quickly grow freakishly large is a big welfare problem in animal agriculture. So it was good news when Global Animal Partnership (GAP), a third-party animal welfare rating...
USDA Proposes Organic Animal Welfare Standards
Farmed AnimalsSince the national organic regulations went into effect in 2001, AWI has called on the US Department of Agriculture and the National Organic Standards Board to establish animal welfare requirements...
130,000 Call on Olive Garden to Adopt Ethical ‘Good Food’ Practices
Press ReleaseMay 12, 2016Farmed AnimalsAdvocacy organizations and their supporters demonstrated at Olive Garden restaurants across the United States today to urge the chain and its parent company, Darden Restaurant Inc., to improve food-sourcing and...
AWI Statement on Proposed Animal Welfare Regulations for the Certified Organic Label
Press StatementApril 7, 2016Farmed AnimalsThe Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) commends the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) for proposing requirements for the welfare of animals raised under the Certified Organic label. AWI generally supports the...