Ahold Delhaize agrees to improving standards for animals
Campaign ends with commitment to shifting its U.S. supply chain away from cages for hens and pigs
MISSION
Animal Equality is an international organization working with society, governments, and companies to end cruelty to farmed animals.
OUR VALUES AND COMMITMENT
As an animal protection organization, we are guided by compassion, determination, and effectiveness.
We are committed to saving as many animals as possible and to reducing the enormous suffering animals endure on factory farms.
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Our work
Animal Equality combines four strategies in its campaigns to help animals.
We go undercover to document and expose the cruel treatment of animals in factory farms and slaughterhouses. To this day, we have inspected over 1,000 factory farms and slaughterhouses in 15 countries.
We raise awareness and inform millions of people who watch our videos so they can see for themselves what the meat, egg, dairy, and fishing industries do to animals. We campaign to convince companies to update their policies that affect animals and our team of attorneys advocate for increased protections and animal rights.
When you witness the horror that really happens behind closed doors and slaughterhouses to farm animals all over the world, it’s impossible not to be affected by it and to realize that we have to do something drastic to stop it.
Joaquin Phoenix
Activist and actor
Nothing prepares you for looking into the eyes of a mother pig whose life is to be impregnated and left in a cage until she’s slaughtered. I can’t imagine how awful it must be to be literally trapped and crushing your own babies and not be able to do anything about it.
Rooney Mara
Activist and actor
News
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European Union stalls on its promise to ‘End the Cage Age’ as activists fight back
Update March 5, 2025: Animal Equality joined other organizations outside the Court of Justice in Luxembourg, calling on the EU Commission to provide a clear timeline and fulfill its long-standing promise to animals. Update February 27, 2026: The European Commission released results from its largest-ever public consultation on farmed animal welfare. According to data from 190,000 verified…
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Dead piglets, botched mutilations exposed on Spain pig farms
Dead piglets in drinking troughs. Injuries the size of a soccer ball. Footage from Spanish pig farms is fueling calls for stronger animal protection enforcement.
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Campaign ends as Ahold Delhaize agrees to improving standards for animals
Global food retailer Ahold Delhaize has formally committed to shifting its U.S. supply chain away from cages for hens and pigs.
Blog
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Federal lawsuit challenges Michigan cage-free egg law
Michigan’s cage-free egg law now faces a federal lawsuit that could weaken similar laws across the country.
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Dragged through mud and manure: How cows suffer for dairy
Animal Equality’s U.K. Executive Director exposes cows unable to stand, hauled by machinery by their hips, and dragged across the barn floor.
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They tried to silence me at the world’s largest animal sacrifice
I entered Nepal for the Gadhimai Festival, where tens of thousands were killed. Pressed by crowds and threats, I refused to be silenced.
