Research and Policy

Animal Welfare: A Vision for a World Where Animals Live Well

The animal welfare movement envisions a world where animals across all contexts — companion, farm, wild, and aquaculture — are treated with the care their sentience and interests deserve.

Key Facts

Welfare Considerations

The vision of animal welfare is ultimately simple: a world where animals live lives free from unnecessary suffering and rich in the positive experiences their nature enables. Achieving this requires work across every domain where humans interact with or affect animals. For companion animals, it means educated, committed owners providing the care each species and individual needs. For farm animals, it means systems that meet behavioral and psychological needs alongside physical health. For wild animals, it means protecting the habitats and ecosystems where they can live according to their nature. For aquaculture animals, it means treating fish and invertebrates with welfare consideration proportionate to their sentience. The Animal Welfare Hub exists to support this vision — providing the evidence-based information that empowers every person who cares about animals to act more effectively on that care.

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