Program Term Archive
Labeling and Food Choices
Stay Savvy on Animal Welfare Food Label Claims with AWI’s Updated Guide
Farmed AnimalsAWI recently released new and improved versions of A Consumer’s Guide to Food Labels and Animal Welfare to help compassionate consumers purchase more humane food options. This guide includes definitions, and the...
Labeling and Food Choices
Farmed AnimalsMost of the meat, poultry, egg, and dairy products sold in American grocery stores and restaurants come from animals raised under intensive conditions within concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs). Animals...
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,...
New Poll: Consumers Overwhelmingly Support Meaningful Standards for “Humanely Raised” Food Label
Press ReleaseMay 30, 2025Farmed AnimalsEighty-eight percent of American consumers believe that claims such as “humanely raised” or “sustainably farmed” on meat and poultry products should be based on meaningful, measurable standards, according to a newly...
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...
USDA Poised to Change Organic Livestock and Poultry Standards to Improve Animal Welfare
Press ReleaseOctober 26, 2023Farmed AnimalsYesterday, the US Department of Agriculture announced plans to publish the Organic Livestock and Poultry Standards final rule. The new rule will at long last establish federal animal welfare standards and have...
USDA Announces Plans to Strengthen Substantiation of Animal-Raising Claims on Meat and Poultry Product Labels
Press ReleaseJune 14, 2023Farmed AnimalsThe US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today that it will soon take steps to improve its label approval program for meat and poultry products...