Grant investigator: Lewis Bollard and Amanda Hungerford
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Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $70,350 to Crate-Free Illinois to support campaigning against the use of gestation crates for pigs. There are approximately 6 million sows in the United States, at least three-quarters of which are routinely confined in gestation crates.[footnote 1: https://civileats.com/2018/03/21/after-a-decade-of-promises-has-the-food-industry-made-progress-on-gestation-crates/]
This follows our August 2019 support and falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare.