“A decade ago, most of the world’s largest food corporations lacked even a basic farm animal welfare policy. Today, they almost all have one. That’s thanks to advocates, who won about 3,000 new corporate policies in the last ten years” with 88% following through. “[A]lmost every new farm animal welfare law and corporate policy globally has focused on chickens” e.g. “advocates secured cage-free pledges from almost all of the largest American and European retailers, fast food chains, and foodservice companies.” (https://us14.campaign-archive.com/?u=66df320da8400b581cbc1b539&id=06c9567d81)
(Not very soundbite-y I know, but I think it conveys that when it comes to farm animal welfare, change is happening and a decent chunk of that is “EA.”)
“The estimated the size of the movement to fight factory farming in 2020 was ~$200 million USD” (https://farmedanimalfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/External-FAF-State-of-the-Movement-Report-2021.pdf)
Open Phil granted ~$25 million to farm animal welfare in 2020 (https://www.openphilanthropy.org/grants/?q=&focus-area%5B%5D=farm-animal-welfare&yr%5B%5D=2020)
“A decade ago, most of the world’s largest food corporations lacked even a basic farm animal welfare policy. Today, they almost all have one. That’s thanks to advocates, who won about 3,000 new corporate policies in the last ten years” with 88% following through. “[A]lmost every new farm animal welfare law and corporate policy globally has focused on chickens” e.g. “advocates secured cage-free pledges from almost all of the largest American and European retailers, fast food chains, and foodservice companies.” (https://us14.campaign-archive.com/?u=66df320da8400b581cbc1b539&id=06c9567d81)
(Not very soundbite-y I know, but I think it conveys that when it comes to farm animal welfare, change is happening and a decent chunk of that is “EA.”)