A Humane World
Latest blog
![An injured pig crammed into a gestation crate](/sites/default/files/styles/500x268/public/2024-03/smithfield-pig_49145_0.jpg?h=21451ffb&itok=IqR20rag)
USDA Secretary’s support for factory farming cruelty is an insult to animals and voters
In the most important farm animal welfare debate of the 21st century so far―the U.S. Supreme Court case regarding California’s Proposition 12—it was beyond disconcerting that the Biden administration put itself on the wrong side of progress by backing the advocates of cruelty and bottom-of-the-barrel pork production. The producers fighting Proposition 12 are trying to maintain the status quo of using intensive confinement systems such as gestation crates—metal cages so small pregnant pigs can’t even turn around for months on end and have been documented chewing on the bars until their mouths bleed from constant frustration. Those who don't feel like meeting the public’s demand for more humane treatment of farm animals are fighting Proposition 12 every way they can.
Read More
All search results
Full Blog Listing
![Tiger laying down in the grass in an open field](/sites/default/files/styles/520x410/public/2023-12/elsa_tiger_630851.jpeg?h=8e185487&itok=zlbsmM2K)
This year, we won some big animal protection battles in the nation’s capital
![French bulldog puppy with cherry eye in Petland enclosure](/sites/default/files/styles/520x410/public/2023-11/cherry-eye-petland-dog-625464.png?h=a602a678&itok=BFMUYNu9)
Hidden camera exposes sick and wounded puppies at Petland store in Michigan
![Outdoor dog kennels in poor condition](/sites/default/files/styles/520x410/public/2023-11/horrible-hundred-2022-breeder-563496.jpg?h=decd9d04&itok=J_mehYUT)
Nearly 500 dogs and cats have been saved from Horrible Hundred breeders this year
![](/sites/default/files/styles/520x410/public/2023-11/akc-blog-photo.jpg?h=9fc2b970&itok=ojG20ylV)
American Kennel Club opposed 450+ bills designed to help dogs
![Puppy mill dog](/sites/default/files/styles/520x410/public/2023-11/Chien-dOr-in-MI-Dog-with-Hair-Loss-Aug2013_200629.jpg?h=f0124e9c&itok=FYcVbSrq)
7,887 complaints reveal how puppy mills hurt dogs and families
![](/sites/default/files/styles/520x410/public/2023-11/Lovie-Ziva.jpg?h=d1cb525d&itok=_HnL0IPU)
‘I am paying $7,000 for ashes’: One family’s Petland story
![](/sites/default/files/styles/520x410/public/2023-11/Harry-Bonham-hairloss-dog-8.8.2022.jpg?h=275fddad&itok=mBDdLMw0)
Revealed: 100 reprehensible US puppy mills in Horrible Hundred report
![](/sites/default/files/styles/520x410/public/2023-11/PL-FFX-MK-3-2-2019.MP4.00_03_02_03.Still002_474461.jpg?h=d1cb525d&itok=F9gj6n7X)