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Breaking news: Parent company of Giant Food, Food Lion and Stop & Shop to eliminate cruel cages for egg-laying hens, mother pigs

Ahold Delhaize, the company that owns some of the largest grocery chains in the United States, including Food Lion, Giant Food, the GIANT Company, Hannaford and Stop & Shop, has announced it will only sell eggs from cage-free chickens across all its stores by 2025 or soon

Images from the Edinburgh stop of the Crate Britain Tour as part of Humane World for Animals UK campaign to ban farrowing crates.

Animatronic pig to tour Scotland exposing ‘pregnancy cage cruelty’ ahead of arrival in Holyrood

Humane World for Animals UK (formerly known as Humane Society International UK) will take its campaign against farrowing crates across Scotland from 11-14 April, bringing a life-size animatronic pig named Penny to towns and cities to highlight the harsh reality faced by tens of thousands of mother pigs on farms.

Adopt pets from animal shelters or rescues, not pet stores

Want to add a pet to your family? Local animal shelters and rescue groups can be great places to search for a new cat, dog, bird, small animal, horse, or even pig! Here’s how.

New polling reveals 84% of Scots support ban on caging pigs in farrowing crates

EDINBURGH—New polling commissioned by leading animal protection organisation Humane World for Animals UK (formerly called Humane Society International UK) and conducted by The Diffley Partnership reveals that an overwhelming majority—84%—of the Scottish public reject the use of farrowing crates f

New Jersey becomes the latest state to ban the extreme confinement of mother pigs and calves used for veal

TRENTON, N.J.—Today, a bill to ban the crates used to cruelly confine mother pigs and calves raised for veal was signed into law by Gov. Phil Murphy. The bill is sponsored by Senator Vin Gopal and Assemblyman Raj Mukherji. It passed the state Senate in June 2023 and state Assembly in May 2023.

Coalition of global animal welfare groups urges international companies to help end bloody “pig chopping” ritual in Vietnam

NEM THUONG, BAC NINH, Vietnam — Animal welfare campaigners are urging global companies such as Samsung and Canon to take a strong stand against a gruesome Lunar New Year festival in Vietnam in which live pigs are tied up and paraded around the streets before being chopped in half

The Humane Society of the United States and Smithfield Foods reach resolution of pig welfare litigation

Chilean restaurant company Gastronomía y Negocios commits to improve hen and pig welfare in supply chain

At Target headquarters, we demanded accountability for farmed animals

This week, members of our Humane World for Animals team arrived at Target’s headquarters in downtown Minneapolis and delivered 15 large boxes containing signed petitions; more

Viet Nam corporations and producer become the first to commit to policies improving conditions for mother pigs in pork production

What are gestation crates?

Pigs are intelligent, highly social animals, yet many sows (female pigs) around the world are treated as piglet-producing units at factory farms that use intensive confinement systems.

Pig in a gestation crate on a factory farm

In insult to animals and customers, Target breaks its animal welfare promises

Commitments to improve the quality of life for animals shouldn’t be empty promises.

How we feed the animals of Black Beauty Ranch

Sanctuary caregivers prep hundreds of pounds of produce each week for monkeys, pigs and more.

How we’re taking a stand for the most widely mistreated animals on the planet

Our approach to ending cruelty for farmed animals comes from two distinct angles.

Gestation and veal crate ban overwhelmingly passes New Jersey legislature

Today S.1298/A.1970, a bill to ban the crates used to cruelly confine mother pigs and calves raised for veal, passed the New Jersey state Senate. The bill is prime-sponsored by Senator Vin Gopal and Assemblyman Raj Mukherji and will now go to Gov. Murphy for his signature.