About The HSUS's Farm Animal Advocacy

Farm animals are social and intelligent individuals, as capable of feeling pain and frustration, joy and excitement, as the dogs and cats we welcome into our families. Unfortunately, most of the animals we use for meat, eggs, and dairy in the United States are raised in factory farms, where their welfare often suffers as a result of intensive confinement, mutilations without painkillers, and inhumane slaughter practices. These abuses are of particular concern to The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) because nearly ten billion land animals are slaughtered for food every year in the country—more than one million every hour.

What We Do to Help Farm Animals

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As the largest animal protection organization in the nation, The HSUS takes a leadership role on farm animal advocacy issues. We strive daily to improve the lives of these animals through a number of means:

• Working in the courts to enforce the animal cruelty laws already on the books;
• Lobbying state and federal legislatures to pass laws to improve farm animal welfare;
• Working with retailers and distributors to mandate animal welfare improvements from their suppliers;
• Reviewing scientific research on the welfare of farm animals and the suffering caused by standard agricultural practices;
• Helping communities stop the proliferation of factory farms;
• Investigating farm animal cruelty;
• Developing strategic campaigns to halt the worst farm animal abuses;
• Working with corporations and organizations to develop farm animal welfare guidelines;
• Helping individuals make compassionate choices at every meal through resources, including The HSUS Guide to Vegetarian Eating.

Help Us Help Farm Animals

Lend your voice to The HSUS's farm animal advocacy efforts. Join us today.

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