Program Term Archive
Farmed Animals
Egg Producer Loses 6 Million Hens to Bird Flu
Farmed AnimalsIn May, Hickman’s Family Farms—a major US egg company—announced the loss of a staggering 95 percent of its chicken flock after highly pathogenic avian influenza (bird flu) swept through several...
Federal Protection of Animals in Transport Goes off the Rails
Farmed AnimalsEvery year, hundreds of millions of farmed animals are shipped across the United States to breeding, feeding, and slaughter facilities—transport that represents one of the most stressful experiences in a...
Fending Off Octopus and Marine Fish Factory Farms
Farmed Animals, Marine WildlifeA pair of bipartisan bills currently before Congress would protect octopuses, finfish, and marine ecosystems from the animal welfare and environmental ills of marine factory farms in the United States....
Lax Label Claim Oversight Undermines Consumer Expectations
Farmed AnimalsAWI has commissioned several surveys over the past 15 years regarding consumer attitudes about animal-raising claims on meat and poultry packaging. In most, including the most recent survey conducted earlier this year,...
Securing Funding for Animal Welfare Priorities
Companion Animals, Equines, Farmed AnimalsIn encouraging news, both Senate and House fiscal year 2026 Agriculture Appropriations bills winding their way through Congress contain provisions that continue to bar horse slaughter operations in the United...
Out of Sight
Farmed AnimalsIn Gail Eisnitz’s memoir, Out of Sight: An Undercover Investigator’s Fight for Animal Rights and Her Own Survival, she recounts a 40-year career working to understand and expose the gruesome truth...
Titus Reintroduces Humane Transport of Farmed Animals Act as New AWI Report Reveals Feeble Enforcement of Welfare Violations
Press ReleaseSeptember 10, 2025Farmed AnimalsToday, US Rep. Dina Titus (D-NV) reintroduced the Humane Transport of Farmed Animals Act to improve conditions for livestock transported across the United States. The bill would require federal officials to develop...
Mink VIRUS Act
Farmed AnimalsThe bipartisan “Mink: Vectors for Infection Risk in the United States Act” (Mink VIRUS Act) would end the farming of mink for fur, after a one-year phase-out period, and establish...
Torching Local Efforts to Prevent Barn Fires
Farmed AnimalsAWI has reported extensively on barn fires, which subject hundreds of thousands of animals to horrific deaths each year. To address this problem and increase fire protections for animals on...
Rising Tide of US Opposition to Octopus Farming
Farmed Animals, Marine WildlifeEfforts to protect octopuses from commercial farming continue, with legislation proposed this year in several states to prohibit octopus farming and the sale of farmed octopus products. Campaigns by animal...