Animal Equality

Animal Equality's vision is a world in which all animals are respected and protected. We operate in eight countries and seek to inform the public about the plight of factory farmed animals and encourage and support individuals in a shift to a plant-based diet. We also work with governments and corporations to ban the most the cruel of practices and implement higher standards for animal welfare in the food system.

Animal Equality conducts hard-hitting investigations, corporate outreach, legal advocacy, and education in order to spare the most amount of animal suffering. Animal Equality focuses on animals raised and killed for food because they suffer the most and die in the largest number due to human consumption. Animal Equality focuses on research-based interventions in order to have the greatest impact.

Animal Equality works across four continents and eight countries, focusing on regions that are underrepresented in the animal rights movement--Latin America and Asia--and where there is the greatest opportunity to protect farmed animals."

Animal Equality focuses on the need for people, companies, and governments to change and assist in this process. Our corporate outreach campaigns focus on bringing about incremental change for farmed animals. Our educational campaign focuses on the reasons why change is needed and how to create it.

Animal Equality's multi-layered approach to animal protection allows us to impact the lives of billions of animals around the globe. As an international organization, all of our offices are staffed with highly skilled professionals that offer important insights on the state of animal rights work in that country and create country-specific programs for maximum impact. We focus on expanding into countries where there is the greatest opportunity to protect farmed animals.

Animal Equality also maintains an extensive network of volunteers including trained operators of out iAnimal virtual reality tool and our "Animal Defenders" who help spread the word about our corporate outreach work in their countries.

Animal Equality also has a strong online presence across all of our countries and our work has been featured in both print, television and online media giving us a wide media reach all over the world.

Animal Equality has impacted the lives of hundreds of millions of farmed animals around the world. In the past 15 years, Animal Equality has investigated over 800 facilities, and won over 150 animal protection corporate commitments, impacting more than 47 million animals. Our legal work has impacted more than 340 million animals. Lastly, iAnimal has reached more than 445 million.

In 2019, Animal Equality’s more than twenty undercover investigations into slaughterhouses in the state of Jalisco, Mexico, resulted in its state legislature overwhelmingly approving a landmark reform criminalizing cruelty to farmed animals. Animal Equality, along with numerous coalition members, also worked to pass Proposition 12 in California and Proposition 3 in Massachusetts — two of the strongest animal protection measures in history. And, our investigations in China resulted in closing a dog slaughterhouse and 33 dog and cat markets.

In 2020, Animal Equality presented six undercover investigations, exposing cruelty to animals used for meat in wet markets, during transport, and on factory farms worldwide. We gathered over half a million signatures demanding the closure of wet markets globally - the presumed source of the COVID-19 pandemic. We have also convinced 13 companies worldwide to adopt animal protection policies that will reduce the suffering of more than 3.5 million chickens used for meat and eggs each year. Animal Equality reached a new milestone this year, now having secured over 150 policy commitments from companies that will impact nearly 39 million hens and chickens worldwide!

Animal Equality has ambitious goals. By the end of 2020, we aim to:
● Spare the lives of over 241 million animals
● Improve the lives of over 2.7 billion animals
● Grow organizationally by deepening our work in Asia and the Middle East