The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $750,000 to The Humane League to support corporate campaigns to improve the welfare of broiler chickens. Broiler chickens are the most numerous land farm animals, with more than a billion alive at any time and approximately 9 billion slaughtered annually in the U.S. alone. Their welfare is impacted by genetics, overcrowding, inhumane slaughter, and environmental factors like chronic sleep deprivation due to lighting schedules optimized for growth. Broiler welfare campaigns seek to address these causes of suffering.
This follows Open Philanthropy's August 2018 general support and falls within its focus area of farm animal welfare.
Read more:
- Open Philanthropy Grant Page
- Open Philanthropy Grant to The Humane League — August 2018
- Open Philanthropy Grant to The Humane League — September 2017
- Open Philanthropy Grant to The Humane League — November 2016
- Open Philanthropy Grant to The Humane League — July 2016
- Open Philanthropy Grant to The Humane League — February 2016
- Open Philanthropy Focus Area: Farm Animal Welfare
- The Humane League Website