Photo: Selene Magnolia / We Animals
Factory
farming ends here.
Factory farming causes more animal suffering than anything else on Earth. We exist to end it.
The largest system of animal cruelty ever to exist.
In less than a century, agriculture has been taken over by profit-driven corporations. The system they built hides billions of animals behind the walls of factory farms and slaughterhouses. It’s hurting all of us.
227 million
Land animals slaughtered around the world every single day
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Photo: Selene Magnolia
Animals
Billions of living, feeling individuals are bred, confined, mutilated, and slaughtered at industrial speeds.
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Photo: Andrew Skowron / Open Cages
People
Food workers face high rates of injury and exploitation. Factory farms are also linked to antibiotic resistance and zoonotic diseases that harm human health.
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Photo: Selene Magnolia / Wildlight / Greenpeace Denmark
Planet
Entire forests are cleared for monocrop livestock feed, while communities downwind and downstream endure pollution and poisoning.
We know where we’re going and what it takes.
Our mission
To end the abuse of animals raised for food.
Our vision
A world where animals are treated as living, feeling beings—free from human exploitation.
How we work.
We put animals at the heart of everything we do
We expect to win, and we make it happen against all odds
We never stop leveling up for the animals
We radically prioritize—we know who we are, and we say no
We’re a global force for animals
Photo: Raul Armas
We transform systems.
We have a clear plan to dismantle factory farming, one strategic intervention at a time. When we target a cruel practice, we hit it from every side: at food companies, in the halls of government, and through a movement that won’t let up. Each win makes the next one easier. Corporate and policy wins power each other, and the movement powers both.
Companies pledge to change
We push food businesses—the biggest buyers of animal products—to drop their worst practices. Fast. Without waiting on legislators. See all pledges.
- Company pledges show lawmakers change is possible
- Laws make pledges permanent
Governments make it the law
We push for laws that apply to every producer, so the whole industry has to meet the standards leading companies have already promised. See all laws.
Pledged to change
We’re writing the blueprint for every animal.
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Chickens raised to lay eggs
Hens are among the most numerous and most heavily confined animals in the food system. Freeing them from cages proves our model works.
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Chickens raised for meat
The same playbook targets the worst abuses broiler chickens face—cruel breeding, overcrowding, and inhumane slaughter.
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Every animal raised for food
Each win builds the legal precedent, coalition, and corporate expectation that the next campaign stands on, driving change for all animals.
Our wins add up.
3K+
corporate animal welfare commitments earned
250M+
animals whose lives are affected by our work in 2026
80+
Open Wing Alliance partners across six continents
$14M+
in grants distributed to Open Wing Alliance partner groups
Independent evaluators rank us among the most effective animal charities in the world
Every win has a step that only you can take.
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We make the ask
Our team researches a company’s supply chain and then asks it privately to make a public animal welfare commitment.
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You make it impossible to ignore
If the company says no, you email, call, and post until saying no costs more than saying yes. This is usually what gets a company to commit.
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We hold them to it
Once a company commits, we track its progress and follow up when it falls behind.
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Photo: Konrad Lozinski / Open Cages
End cruel cages now
Millions of hens still spend their lives in battery cages.
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Photo: Andrew Skowron / Open Cages
Stop live-shackle slaughter
When chickens go to slaughter, thousands are accidentally boiled alive.
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Photo: Andrew Skowron / We Animals
Protect mother pigs
Pregnant sows are forced into crates so small they can’t even turn around.
Ban gestation crates
Fuel the movement.
Your gift fuels the campaigns that end animal abuse.
Every dollar is accounted for. See our reports and financials.