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Leadership Circle raises the bar and helps you meet it by developing the network of higher-welfare farms, and driving consumer demand to them.

One hog farmer, Paul Willis, chose farming over industrialized production, and has shown us what high-welfare pig farming looks like.

The report, titled “Animal Welfare in the National Organic Program: The USDA Must Act Quickly to Ensure Consumer Trust,” documents how farmers, retailers, and consumer advocates overwhelmingly support—and expect—stronger welfare standards for animals raised under the organic program.

As consumers have grown more conscious about how their food is produced many have signaled their willingness to pay a premium for birds with less severe health problems raised on higher welfare farms.

This lack of transparency and meaning in labels is one of the main reasons we created BuyingPoultry—to help consumers cut through confusing labels and find healthier, higher-welfare poultry and egg options.

Farm Forward believes that a sustainable and just food system treats animals and humans with dignity. We’re facing a new administration whose agricultural advisory committee will include outspoken opponents of wage reform and animal welfare policies.

What sets Farm Forward apart from other animal welfare groups is our visionary leadership that looks beyond suffering reduction to the overall institutional and cultural change that will end factory farming.

In a major blow to small and independent farmers the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) announced it will withdraw an interim final rule from the Obama Administration that would have set proof of harm standards under the Packers and Stockyards Act.

Our Faith in Food Initiative is the largest national effort to promote community-specific efforts to fight factory farming from a faith-based perspective.

The University of California (UC) system announced that eight of its ten schools will now purchase eggs from certified higher welfare farms.

In an effort to increase transparency, Perdue Foods, one of the largest poultry producers in the U.S., has announced revolutionary animal welfare standards that will impact more than 600 million birds per year.

In response to the Trump Administration’s second delay of the Organic Livestock and Poultry Practices rule, Farm Forward joins The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) and the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) to entreat the USDA to implement the rules without further delay

Solution to the world’s farming problem has to involve farmers! Our goal is to support and learn from those industry leaders. Here’s how.

Factory farming isn’t just bad for animals, humans, and the planet, but also for investments! See what FAIRR is saying about the risks here.

Ethics are shaped throughout history by religion’s vital role. Join us in turning to the animal activists in these religious spaces.

Every Thanksgiving, we gather with our family and friends to celebrate what we’ve been thankful for in the past year. Thanksgiving, more than any other American holiday, also invites us to reflect on the food we put on our table.

Factory farming wreaks havoc on the animals being farmed, the workers processing them, the air we breath and earth we live on. Let’s change.

A strong national movement is developing to ban one of the cruelest practices in animal agriculture—the use of cages and crates for confinement on factory farms.

Want to know one of the greatest barriers to promoting better animal welfare and greater sustainability in farming? Learn more here.

Indecency at Kosher slaughterhouse prompted one of the trailblazing books connecting the dots between religion and animals. Learn more here.

American entrepreneurship has changed the world more than once and will play a key role in defeating the factory farm.

Unethical slaughter methods continue to be commonly used in the production of kosher meat sold in the United States and Israel, but resistance to these outdated practices is mounting due to public pressure.

Although factory farming has devastated traditional cattle husbandry, the beef industry has resisted the factory farm model more than any other form of animal agriculture (including dairy production).

Chickens, while sentient and with individual personalities, have been genetically modified solely for higher meat yields. Learn more here.

How we view dogs and pigs is vastly different, but are they really so different after all? Learn more here.

Learn more about the complexities behind why fish welfare standards have been historically lacking. Click here.

With new understanding unfolding for fish sentience and ability, more individuals side with the fish on this one! Learn more here.

Premium care comes with a premium price. But how can you know which package is best? Learn more about the system here.

A California law that has protected the public from consuming meat from animals that are too sick or injured to even stand was overturned. Learn more of the implications here.