And when it comes to choosing the food we eat, the countless labels don’t always make it easier.
At World Animal Protection, we’re committed to ensuring that all farm animals are treated humanely and helping you to understand exactly what that means.
With your help, we can ensure farm animals have better lives, so we can be healthier and feel good about choosing humanely raised food.
Choosing to eat less meat and higher welfare products is better for animals, people, and the planet. Food produced through humane farming methods, including high welfare free range and organic production can also have health benefits for you, and is better for the environment.
Our food systems are geared to maximize production, but we haven’t curbed the negative impacts on animal welfare, the environment and human health.
More than 70 billion animals are farmed for food each year and production is expected to keep rising.
Right now, 50 billion of those farm animals are born on factory farms – intensive, large-scale farms that prioritize methods to increase production. Animals are confined in tight spaces, unable to move freely or express their natural behaviours.
These animals deserve better. In fact, we all deserve better.
Whether it’s superbugs potentially being created on factory farms, or demand for meat contributing to emissions, it’s time to understand that how we treat animals impacts the health of people, animals and the planet.
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization, demand for meat is projected to rise nearly 73% between 2010 and 2030; demand for dairy is expected to rise 58 percent.
If we continue down this path, these crises are going to get worse. We have to take action to curb these issues now.
Our food systems have the wrong priorities. By switching to alternative proteins and high welfare animal products we can curb these issues and even improve our food security.
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We do everything we can to give animals a better life, here in Canada and around the world. With the best available science and our collaborative approach, that’s the promise we’ve kept for decades. But we can’t do it alone. Will you join us?
People everywhere want to see wildlife. It’s natural. What’s not natural, is that the demand to be close to wild animals means that dolphins and other animals are held captive and made to perform. That’s not entertainment and together we can do better.
Our world is changing. The climate crisis means more wildfires, floods and droughts that could destroy habitats, kill millions of animals and displace millions of people. When animals lose their environment, so do we. But with action today and planning for tomorrow, we can make a difference together.