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Animal Equality — Broiler Welfare Campaigns

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  • Focus Area: Farm Animal Welfare
  • Category: Global Health & Wellbeing
  • Organization Name: Animal Equality
  • Amount: $215,000

  • Award Date: January 2019

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    Animal Equality launching a campaign for animal welfare. (Photo courtesy of Animal Equality)

    Grant investigator: Lewis Bollard

    This page was reviewed but not written by the grant investigator. Animal Equality staff also reviewed this page prior to publication.”


    The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $215,000 to Animal Equality to support corporate campaigns to improve the welfare of broiler chickens. Broiler chickens are the most numerous land farm animals, with more than a billion alive at any time and approximately 9 billion slaughtered annually in the U.S. alone.According to this U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) report, 9,050,716,000 chickens were slaughtered in 2017. Their welfare is impacted by genetics, overcrowding, inhumane slaughter, and environmental factors like chronic sleep deprivation due to lighting schedules optimized for growth. Broiler welfare campaigns seek to address these causes of suffering.

    This follows our June 2018 support of U.S. and international corporate cage-free and broiler welfare campaigns, and falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare.

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    Department of Agriculture 2018 Source

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