Welcome to Animal Welfare League International

Animal agriculture profits from the suffering of billions of animals. We exist to end that.

We spotlight cruelty, relieve suffering, and rebuild the systems that cause it — through corporate campaigns, scientific research, and strategic grantmaking across Africa and around the world.

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Most people will never see the inside of an animal farm. The industry counts on that. Here is what is hidden:

Battery-caged hen
67 square inches
The space the average battery-caged hen spends her life inside — less than a sheet of paper. She cannot spread her wings, dust-bathe, or perch. She will lay roughly 300 eggs in this position before she is killed.
Compassion in World Farming; EFSA scientific opinion on laying hens (2023).
Fast-growth broiler chicken
35 days old, and dying
Modern "broiler" chickens are bred to reach slaughter weight in roughly 35 days. By the end, many cannot stand. Their hearts and legs collapse under bodies they were engineered to grow too fast.
RSPCA and ASPCA welfare reviews; Better Chicken Commitment baseline.
Tilapia in intensive aquaculture
Less space than their own body
In intensive tilapia operations, fish are stocked at densities so high that each animal has less water than the volume of its own body. They live in their own waste until harvest.
FAO aquaculture welfare guidance; Fish Welfare Initiative reports.
Farmed fish at slaughter
Up to 15 minutes of conscious suffocation
Most farmed fish are not stunned before slaughter. They suffocate on open air or ice — fully conscious — for up to 15 minutes. There is no humane regulation that requires this to stop. We are working to change that.
HSA; Eurogroup for Animals; Compassion in World Farming aquaculture reports.

We demand transformation of the system — and we help build the new one while we are at it.

We do not write reports and hope someone reads them. We have a clear plan to dismantle animal suffering in animal farming — one strategic intervention at a time. Our approach combines three tools, deployed simultaneously, until cruel practices become unprofitable to continue.

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Outreach & campaigns
Direct corporate negotiation, public campaigning, shareholder activism, financial impact analysis, protest, and collaborative dialogue with food companies — restaurants, hotels, retailers, food service — to lock cage-free, fish-welfare, and broiler-welfare standards into their supply chains. We also train egg and fish producers in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Egypt, and Morocco on better welfare practices, in partnership with local universities.
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Research
Scientific animal welfare research is brutally underfunded — and almost none of it focuses on Africa. We commission and conduct studies on grassroots welfare interventions across Sub-Saharan Africa, with an emphasis on aquatic animals and wildlife where the data gap is widest. Better evidence means better policy, better corporate standards, and better lives for animals.
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Grantmaking
We move money to where it works. We make solicited and unsolicited grants to qualified charitable organizations across Africa, to universities and research institutions in the US and Africa, and to independent market-research contractors. Every grant is governed by a written agreement, OFAC-screened, and reviewed by our Board.
When we target a cruel practice —

…like confining hens in cages so small they cannot spread their wings,

…like breeding chickens to reach slaughter size in 35 days, leaving them crippled under their own bodies,

…like packing tilapia into cages with less space per fish than the size of their own body,

…like leaving fish to suffocate on open air and ice for up to 15 minutes while fully conscious —

…we deploy every tool we have, simultaneously, until that practice is no longer the norm.
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We are proud to be supported by funders who back evidence-led, high-impact animal advocacy.

The animals don't get to wait. Don't make them.

Every dollar we move is a dollar against confinement, mutilation, and suffocation. Every commitment we win covers thousands — sometimes millions — of animals. Stand with us.

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