Integrating animal welfare science into school curricula builds the next generation of welfare-aware consumers, voters, and professionals.
Education is the longest-horizon welfare intervention - changing the values, awareness, and choices of future generations who will shape farming, policy, and consumption. Young people exposed to evidence-based animal welfare education are more likely to make welfare-positive choices throughout their lives. Investment in welfare education creates cumulative societal change that improves outcomes for billions of animals over decades.