Animal welfare and the farming industry

Around the world, animals used for meat, eggs and dairy often suffer on factory farms where they are treated as units of production rather than living, feeling ...

Inhumane Practices on Factory Farms - Animal Welfare Institute

Farmed animals may also experience chronic pain due to production diseases—ailments that arise from the husbandry conditions inherent in intensive animal ...

Farm Animal Welfare—From the Farmers' Perspective - PMC

The number of welfare challenges that animals are facing in the livestock production industries is growing rapidly, and farmers are a key ...

High animal welfare on farms - World Animal Protection

We work with the food industry to improve farm animal welfare and keep animals in an environment where they can benefit from a life worth living.

Animal Welfare - Animal Agriculture Alliance

Farm families take the ethical obligation of providing the best quality care to their animals very seriously. Although farm size and type of production ...

Farm Animal Welfare in the Industrial System - FoodPrint

Farm Animal Welfare. Animals raised on factory farms often live in overcrowded, dirty, confined spaces, subject to brutal physical manipulations ...

Farmed animal welfare issues in agriculture and livestock production

Chickens · Chick culling · Beak trimming · Battery cages · Overcrowding · Fast growth · Feed restriction of breeds · Genetics and breeder birds · Transport and ...

Animal welfare and the farming industry - FAIRR Initiative

Our research shows that animal welfare is an issue many food companies are either not properly reporting or not effectively managing. In total 63% of companies ...

Protecting Farm Animals from Abuse and Suffering - ASPCA

The vast majority of these animals are raised on “factory farms,” where they are confined in huge numbers in barren, industrial settings. These facilities are ...

Farm Animal Welfare: A Review of Standard Practices And Their ...

Intensive farming practices can adversely affect welfare by failing to provide farm animals with their basic needs, such as adequate space.

How Are Factory Farms Cruel to Animals? - The Humane League

On factory farms, animals endure routine mutilations, extreme confinement, and genetic manipulation—all for the supposed benefit of human ...

Farm animal protection FAQ

There are no federal animal welfare laws regulating the treatment of the billions of "food animals" while they're on the farm. Further, while all 50 states have ...

Animal Welfare Act | National Agricultural Library - USDA

The Animal Welfare Act is the only U.S. Federal law that regulates the treatment of animals in research, teaching, testing, and exhibition.

Factory Farming: The Industry Behind Meat and Dairy - PETA

Animals on factory farms endure constant fear and torment: ... When they've grown large enough to slaughter or their bodies have been worn out from producing milk ...

Farm Animal Welfare: Science & Research

Farm Animal Welfare: Science & Research. Humane Society International. For comprehensive reports on animal agribusiness and its toll on farm animal welfare, the ...

Animal Health and Welfare | National Agricultural Library - USDA

Find selected resources on humane animal care (e.g., proper nutrition, housing, & environment, prevention of pain, suffering, disease, & disability).

Animal Welfare in Food Production - Kansas Farm Food Connection

Healthy animals produce a higher quality product. So, farmers and ranchers do everything they can to make sure their animals are healthy.

Animals in Agriculture & Aquaculture - FoodPrint

Learn about animal welfare, animal rights, and abuse and cruelty prevention in industrial food production and the benefits of more humane practices.

Factors that Influence Farmers' Views on Farm Animal Welfare

... farmers view on FAW?”. Research into the HAR, especially in the farming sector has a long history. Even if there is automation in livestock production ...

5 Ways You Can Help Farmed Animals | Animal Welfare Institute

1. Eat Less Meat, Dairy, and Eggs; 2. Shop for Higher-Welfare Food; 3. Never Eat These Foods; 4. Fight the Growth of Factory Farms; 5. Spread the Word–And ...