This Is Factory Farming. Join the Movement to End It
How we treat farm animals today will be seen, I believe, as a defining moral failing of our age.
Deep down, we already know.
That our food system has become a dystopian nightmare, hidden in plain sight. That it subjects animals to the worst imaginable torture—for their entire lives, and in their final moments. That it’s a breeding ground for antibiotic resistance and a petri dish for zoonotic diseases. That it can’t go on this way.
“Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand,” says writer Jonathan Safran Foer, “that something terribly wrong is happening. . . . We know that if someone offers to show us a film on how our meat is produced, it will be a horror film.”
IT’S POISONING our
Waste from concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) has contaminated groundwater in 17 states and polluted 35,000 miles of rivers across the nation. In Oklahoma, residents are fighting back. Learn their story.
IT’S THE GREATEST CAUSE OF ANIMAL SUFFERING ever
Around the globe, 83 billion animals suffer on factory farms every year—more than 10 times the global human population. They feel fear. They feel pain. And they deserve better.
IT’S making
“Skin sores. Vomiting. Muscle aches. Chemical burns to the respiratory tract, skin and eyes. Chronic lung disease. Chronic bronchitis. Lockjaw. Difficulty breathing. Death.”
These are some of the health risks one community uncovered in their desperate fight to stop a CAFO from destroying the place they call home. Learn their story.
chickens are slaughtered every minute (Our World in Data)
THIS CRISIS IS UNPRECEDENTED
As you read this, the worst bird flu outbreak in history is sweeping the globe—ravaging chicken farms, infecting dairy farms, and threatening biodiversity across the world. More than 90 million farmed birds in the US have died, with the vast majority being “culled” using a method called ventilation shutdown plus (VSD+).
The process involves shutting down ventilation and pumping in heat, spiking temperatures to above 104°F. Death, likely from multiple organ failure, can take hours. Join The Humane League in calling on the American Veterinary Medical Association to condemn the horrific practice of VSD+.
ENDING EXTREME CONFINEMENT IS THE FIRST STEP
Together with advocates and policymakers, The Humane League is steadily moving the needle for animals, beginning by ending cruel cages. By tackling extreme confinement on factory farms, we can prove that seismic industry change is not only possible; it’s inevitable. Our cage-free advocacy for hens, mother pigs, and calves is a strategic move toward dismantling the factory farming system as a whole—and ending the systematic abuse of animals in our food system. Let’s eradicate battery cages from the face of the planet.
It’s time to act.
Enough is enough. Will you join thousands of people around the world in adding your voice on behalf of animals, people, and the planet?
Your message will reach that need to address animal abuse.