The Humane League

We believe a world that's free of animal abuse starts with a world that has less animal abuse. Step by step. Day by day. Big social change is a journey of small, yet meaningful, incremental steps. Ending the use of cages. Giving animals more space. Banning cruel breeding. All of these wins change the factory farming system, slowly breaking down its walls and getting us closer to our goal to end the abuse of animals for food.

The Humane League relentlessly works to end the abuse of animals raised for food through both institutional and individual change.

Institutionally, we work to hold the world's largest corporations accountable to higher animal welfare. By influencing companies to create and implement meaningful animal welfare policies, we work to abolish the worst forms of abuse and reduce the suffering of billions of farm animals, while working to encourage food companies to incorporate plant-based alternatives to their menus.

Through the Animal Policy Alliance (APA), we also work to enact meaningful change for animals and end large-scale animal cruelty through legislation and policy change.

Individually, we work to open people's eyes to the horrifying ways in which animals are treated in typical factory farm environments, empowering individuals to take action for the animals by reducing their consumption of animal products and through activism via the Fast Action Network.

As part of a broader animal protection movement, we work to share helpful resources, train other nonprofit organizations around the world, and build a welcoming, collaborative, and change-making community.

The Humane League's tried-and-true campaign model focuses on the major corporations that profit from cruelty, exposing the reality of how animals are treated and leveraging our activist and supporter network to apply public pressure.

Our success is fueled by a strong and growing body of supporters around the world. We actively seek to empower our movement by building local, regional, international, and virtual groups of concerned individuals who take action for animals.

Recognizing that we can have even greater impact through collaboration, The Humane League founded the Open Wing Alliance (OWA), a global coalition of animal protection organizations unified in the pursuit to end the abuse of chickens worldwide. The OWA, established by The Humane League in 2016, has grown into a global force of 100+ animal protection organizations across 72 countries in six continents. It is changing the way the worlds biggest companies treat animals and setting a new standard for corporate animal welfare policies locally - in every major market - and globally.

We also founded the Animal Policy Alliance (APA) to organize, unite, and empower local and state-level animal advocacy groups - pushing to bring the plight of farmed animals to the forefront of US public policy conversations. Our network of APA groups channels the grassroots power of a massive base of animal welfare advocates in the US, building relationships with legislators at the city, state, and federal levels and advocating for policies that help animals.

We've persuaded hundreds of companies to end the worst abuses of animals raised within our broken food system. Some of the world's biggest corporations have all enacted welfare policies to protect animals thanks to our tireless activism and campaigning. Through our international offices and the Open Wing Alliance, we continue to work to ban battery cages worldwide, and have secured over 3,000 commitments to spare chickens from abuse. This includes over 2,500 cage-free welfare commitments and over 600 broiler welfare commitments. As a result of the cage-free commitments we've secured, millions of chickens are now free from cages to spread their wings.

We also played a critical role in passing laws in Massachusetts and California to ban some of the most horrifying practices on farms such as veal crates and battery cage confinement.

Up next - We know empty promises won't empty cages. So when corporate giants who promised to stop confining hens to tiny battery cages aren't reporting tangible progress toward ending this abuse, we will hold them accountable with public reports and campaigns. And we'll keep working to pass and defend laws that improve the lives of chickens and other animals raised for food.

Finally, The Humane League will continue to work to build the movement for animals by training and empowering activists, inspiring individuals to make compassionate dietary choices, and supporting other groups through the OWA and APA.