animal-welfare

Disaster relief work requires the collaboration of many stakeholders and can be viewed through a One Health lens, emphasising transdisciplinarity and an openness to different ways of knowing as well as an appreciation of the interdependence of human, animal, environmental health, and welfare. This perspective piece provides an autoethnographic account of a wildfire response in Western Canada in w…

Published on August 19, 2026 10:50 PM GMT Faunalytics has published a new report estimating global male chick culling — the killing of male chicks in the egg industry, usually within hours of hatching — at 7.83 billion in 2024 , up about 11% from 7.08 billion in 2019. Here's why it may interest this community. Scale. At nearly 8 billion individuals a year, chick culling is one of the largest-scal…

A proposed new large-scale octopus farm in Spain is a huge risk to the welfare of this sentient and intelligent animal.

Animal welfare laws don’t protect invertebrates, but there’s evidence that some, such as octopuses, are as intelligent as many mammals – even if their cognition takes very different forms.

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Published on August 13, 2026 7:46 PM GMT This is a cross-post of the executive summary from The Centre for Animal Life and Farming 's first report. See the full report here . We will also be hosting a webinar on 25th August 2026 to discuss these findings with the animal welfare movement. Executive Summary Roughly 80-90% of farmed animals live in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs), [1] yet t…

An octopus farm proposal sparked global uproar from animal welfare advocates, scientists and ordinary people – including one 9-year-old.

R. Tejeswini, National Law University Odisha ABSTRACT The article takes a close look at the ideological clashes and cultural barriers behind animal welfare law in India and makes the argument that constitutional rights to equal treatment and secularism don’t quite fit with a religiously motivated classification system of animals where the cow is a special, almost sacred figure while other animals…

CSU professor Temple Grandin has spent decades reshaping livestock handling and animal welfare. Now she's nominated for the Cattle Feeders Hall of Fame 2027 Industry Leadership Award. The post Vote now: CSU’s Grandin up for Cattle Feeder’s Hall of Fame honor appeared first on College of Agricultural Sciences . The post Vote now: CSU’s Grandin up for Cattle Feeder’s Hall of Fame honor appeared fir…

Published on August 5, 2026 5:06 PM GMT This is an important article—please like and restack. You’ve heard me talk before about the Save Our Bacon Act . It’s a bill that would wipe out most state animal welfare protections outside of egg laying hens, setting back many years of progress. It would force many millions of animals to live brief hellish lives in crates. Today is absolutely essential fo…

Published on August 5, 2026 4:43 PM GMT Priority deadline: October 15, 2026. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, and we encourage earlier submission for time-sensitive work. Apply here . Summary The EA Animal Welfare Fund (AWF) is seeking proposals that accelerate the cage-free transition for laying hens at scale, especially in Asia, Latin America, and Africa (although we are open to ap…

Published on July 20, 2026 10:00 PM GMT Effective animal welfare campaigns target food sectors that use small animals such as chickens, fish and shrimp (cfr. cage free eggs, shrimp welfare campaigns). Those campaigns are often institutional, meaning that they aim for institutional change (cfr. corporate campaigns) instead of individual behavior change. But those most effective campaigns are welfa…

Livestock and pets may be at risk due to poor air quality from Canadian wildfire smoke, according to animal welfare expert Angela Green-Miller at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Published on July 10, 2026 12:08 AM GMT Thanks to the work of advocates and donors inside and outside of this movement, the Farm Bill draft released by Senate Agriculture Chair John Boozman did not include the dangerous Save Our Bacon Act. This was a huge win towards protecting millions of animals from extreme confinement and other cruel farming practices in the US. The next step is calling or em…

Published on July 10, 2026 12:08 AM GMT Thanks to the work of advocates and donors inside and outside of this movement, the Farm Bill draft released by Senate Agriculture Chair John Boozman did not include the dangerous Save Our Bacon Act. This was a huge win towards protecting millions of animals from extreme confinement and other cruel farming practices in the US. The next step is calling or em…

IntroductionValid quantification of fecal corticosterone metabolites (FCM) is a valuable non-invasive method for assessing hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activity and stress responses in animals. The increasing emphasis on animal welfare highlights the need not only to expand knowledge but also to critically evaluate methodological approaches, particularly with regard to how individual…