Our work in the United States

Results-driven work

Across the United States, we have made significant progress, especially in recent years.

After decades of work, all 50 states now have felony animal cruelty provisions. And the FBI now tracks animal cruelty in its crime reporting system.

In 2022, after years of effort, the Big Cat Public Safety Act banned keeping big cats as pets or letting the public interact with them.

As of 2024, over 40% of the egg-laying hens in the country are cage-free. We’ve also continued our work with 12 of the top 50 food service companies and self-operated dining programs to set—and meet—plant-based menu and meat reduction goals. Similarly, we’ve partnered with corporations, universities and other institutions to require that hens kept for egg production are not confined to cages and pregnant pigs kept for breeding are not confined to cages throughout their pregnancies. And we continue to defend attacks on state laws banning extreme farm animal confinement.

We are making progress at the state level. In 2023, California—which in 2017 made up nearly a quarter of all retail fur sales in the U.S.— implemented the first statewide ban on new fur sales.