Press Releases

Liberal Democrat MP and Environment spokesperson Sarah Dyke has led a cross‑party letter to the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) calling on the Government to bring forward mandatory, clear and consistent animal welfare labelling on meat products, and to strengthen enforcement against misleading claims in food marketing.

WASHINGTON—Today Humane World for Animals, formerly called the Humane Society of the United States, released its 2026 Food Service Industry Protein Sustainability Scorecard<

Momentum is building to ban bullfighting in the state of Hidalgo, which could become the seventh state in Mexico to prohibit the practice. Yesterday, as part of its ongoing efforts to support legislative action against bullfighting, Humane World for Animals provided scientific and technical background at the first-ever bullfighting forum held at the Congress Tower of the State of Hidalgo.

WASHINGTON—Humane World for Animals and Humane World Action Fund, formerly called Humane Society of the United States and Humane Society Legislative Fund, today filed a lawsuit against the U.S.

Ahead of the global release of “Michael”, the biographical film on the life of Michael Jackson, Humane World for Animals (formerly called the Humane Society of the United States and Humane Society International) says the film’s benign portrayal of wild animals kept as pets — particularly a chimpanzee called Bubbles — could lead to a worrying increase in demand.

In a shocking decision made on March 30th, Health Canada reversed its previous ban on the notoriously cruel poison strychnine, granting Alberta and Saskatchewan emergency use permits to kill ground squirrels until November 2027. In response, a coalition of environmental and animal welfare groups across the country is denouncing the reckless decision and calling on Health Canada to uphold the science-based strychnine ban.

Humane World for Animals commends Bromsgrove International School Thailand, a leading British school in Bangkok, for adopting a sourcing policy using 100% eggs from cage-free hens for all its foodservice on campus by the end of 2026.

Sa-Nguan Farm has launched Thailand’s first commercial-scale cage-free aviary for hens used in egg production, in collaboration with Humane World for Animals Thailand.

Over the course of two days, national and international specialists from the animal protection organization Humane World for Animals participated in the second forum on animals in disasters, held in the cities of Mérida and Mexico City.