Pension funds manage trillions in assets that flow into factory farming and animal exploitation. Responsible investment screening can redirect capital toward higher welfare practices.
Pension funds are often invisible participants in the factory farming system — yet their capital underwrites the infrastructure of intensive animal agriculture globally. When pension beneficiaries request welfare screens, fund managers face reputational and regulatory pressure to act. FAIRR analysis shows that factory farming represents systemic financial risk through pandemic exposure, regulatory tightening, and resource scarcity — making welfare screening financially as well as ethically motivated. Individual beneficiaries can write to their pension trustees requesting ESG policies that explicitly address farm animal welfare.