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Treat all animals with love, kindness and respect

Every animal people raise, catch or live alongside treated humanely, with factory farming ended.

7 organizations tracked  ·  0 vetted

The goal in brief

GoalEvery animal people raise, catch or live alongside treated humanely, with factory farming ended.

animals killed for food every year1
100 billion+
of farmed land animals in factory farms1
≈74%
of antimicrobials used on animals (2017)2
73%

Why it matters

More than 100 billion animals are killed for meat and other animal products every year, and about three-quarters of farmed land animals live on factory farms.1 Intensive farming also leans on drugs: animals took an estimated 73% of the antimicrobials used worldwide in 2017, which helps germs grow resistant to the medicines people rely on.2

How we’ll know it’s done

Finish line
No animals raised in factory farms, and laws in every country protecting animals from needless suffering.
What counts
Animals given room to move and live naturally and handled humanely, with plant-based and cultivated proteins replacing the worst systems.
How it’s checked
Counts of animals kept in cages, crates and crowded sheds, and the reach of national animal-welfare laws.
Our part
We’ll fund this once our vetting team vets an organization working on it.

What follows

  • Fewer drug-resistant infections as farm antimicrobial use falls.H-15End disease
  • Lower greenhouse gas emissions from livestock.E-08Establish global climate equilibrium
  • Land now used to grow animal feed freed up for nature.E-02Protect and regenerate key ecosystems
  • Farming that works with nature instead of against it.E-03Establish biodiverse, regenerative agricultural systems
  • Less pressure on wild fish as diets shift to alternatives.O-03Replenish depleted fish populations

How it can be solved

The approaches to this goal, and how many of the organizations taking each one we’ve vetted.

  • Alternative proteins

    Food grown from plants or cells, so fewer animals are farmed.

    5 organizations

  • Rescue and sanctuaries

    Caring for rescued wildlife and animals retired from captivity.

    2 organizations

Who’s working on it

We only call a solution proven, measurable and scalable once our vetting team has vetted it. Everything else here, the team is tracking.

Vetted0 organizationsReviewed by our vetting team, and passed all three tests.

  • Proven

    It has worked, with results to show.

  • Measurable

    Its impact can be counted.

  • Scalable

    It can grow toward the size of the goal.

None on this goal yet. When our vetting team vets an organization working on it, it appears here with its vetting report.

Not vetted7 organizationsTracked by our vetting team. Not vetted yet, so we make no claims about them.

Listing an organization isn’t an endorsement. Not vetted means just that: our vetting team is tracking it, and we make no claims about it yet. Last reviewed October 2026.

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Sources

  1. 1. Ritchie, “How many animals are factory-farmed?” Our World in Data (2023, updated 2024) (opens in a new tab)
  2. 2. Mulchandani et al., “Global trends in antimicrobial use in food-producing animals: 2020 to 2030,” PLOS Global Public Health (2023) (opens in a new tab)