Animal Welfare Cause Report | Founders Pledge
Please note this page was last updated in 2020. While our overall views remain unchanged, some details may be out of date. At least 75 billion farmed land animals and more than a trillion fish are slaughtered for food each year. Most of these animals live in highly uncomfortable environments or are killed using methods that seem very painful. Even if one thinks that the life of an average farm animal is much less important or morally relevant than the life of a human, the number of animals involved and the degree of hardship they seem to experience make intensive animal farming a major source of suffering in the world. Although this situation seems bleak, there are reasons to be hopeful. Recent years have seen rapid progress in the animal welfare movement. Many large companies have pledged to phase out or drastically reduce some of their industry’s most harmful practices. Governments have banned some of these practices outright. And companies working to commercialize alternative protei
Please note this page was last updated in 2020. While our overall views remain unchanged, some details may be out of date. At least 75 billion farmed land animals and more than a trillion fish are slaughtered for food each year. Most of these animals live in highly uncomfortable environments or are killed using methods that seem very painful. Even if one thinks that the life of an average farm animal is much less important or morally relevant than the life of a human, the number of animals involved and the degree of hardship they seem to experience make intensive animal farming a major source
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