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Humane Society International is teaming with
ARCA Brasil, a well-respected animal welfare organization headquartered in São Paulo, to confront some of the cruelest practices in factory farming.
Just like dogs and cats, chickens, pigs, and other animals used for food have their own personalities, inquisitive natures, likes and dislikes. Most importantly, they are able to feel pain, suffer from boredom and frustration, and experience joy.
Yet in Brazil (as elsewhere around the world), billions of these animals are routinely mistreated on overcrowded, stressful, and unsanitary factory farms.
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Many spend the majority of their lives confined to cruel cages or crates. Egg-laying hens are crowded into wire battery cages so tiny they cannot fully stretch their wings, walk, or engage in many other natural behaviors. Pregnant pigs are kept in gestation crates, individual metal stalls so small the animals can’t turn around. Other animals also suffer in crates and cages.
HSI and ARCA Brasil are reaching out to egg and pork producers, as well as food retailers, asking them to adopt and implement higher animal welfare standards. As a consumer, you can help.
What You Can Do
