Top Stop Factory Farming Web Sites

American Humane Association and The Humane Touch
Created the first welfare certification program in the United States (American Humane Certified) to ensure the humane treatment of farm animals.

Animal Welfare Institute
A non-profit charitable organization working to reduce the pain and fear inflicted on animals by humans—with an emphasis on cruel animal factories that raise and slaughter pigs, cows, chickens, and other animals.

Center for a Livable Future
Engaged in research, educational outreach, and community action in its program areas of farming, eating, and living for our future.

Center for Food Safety
A non-profit public interest and environmental advocacy membership organization established in 1997 to challenge harmful food production technologies and promote sustainable alternatives.

Clean Water Action
A 1.2-million-member political action group working to protect the environment, public health, economic well-being, and community quality of life; several state offices are involved in factory farm issues. See web site for regional office contact information.

CAFO the Book
The official web site for Watershed Media’s CAFO: The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories, which provides an unprecedented view of concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), where increasing amounts of the world’s meat, milk, eggs, and seafood are produced.

Compassion in World Farming
Founded in 1967 by a British farmer who became horrified by the development of modern intensive factory farming; campaigns peacefully to end all cruel factory farming practices.

Corporate Agribusiness Research Project
A public interest project reinstituted in 1996, sponsored by Voice for a Viable Future; seeks to provide a central, accurate, in-depth source of information about corporate agribusiness's economic, social, and environmental impacts on family farmers, rural communities, ecosystems, labor, and consumers.

Environmental Integrity Project
A non-partisan, non-profit organization established in 2002 by former Environmental Protection Agency enforcement attorneys to advocate for more effective enforcement of environmental laws.

Farm Sanctuary
Works to end cruelty to farm animals and promotes compassionate living through rescue, education, and advocacy.

Humane Farming Association
Protects farm animals from cruelty; the public from the dangerous misuse of antibiotics, hormones, and other chemicals used on factory farms; and the environment from the impacts of industrialized animal factories.

Humane Society of the United States: Factory Farming Campaign
As the largest animal protection organization in the nation, takes a leadership role on farm animal advocacy issues.

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)
An alliance of grassroots organizations that advocates for federal policy reform to advance the sustainability of agriculture, food systems, natural resources, and rural communities.

PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals)
As the largest animal rights organization in the world, focuses its attention on four areas: factory farms, laboratories, the clothing trade, and the entertainment industry.

Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Production (PCIFAP)
Independent commission formed to conduct a comprehensive, fact-based and balanced examination of key aspects of the farm animal industry – through the lenses of veterinary medicine, agriculture, public health, business, government, rural advocacy, and animal welfare.

Socially Responsible Agriculture Project
Educates the public about the problems caused by factory farms, and works to help communities protect themselves against the devastating impacts of these facilities.

Wild Farm Alliance
Promotes agriculture that helps to protect and restore wild nature.

World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA)
Has promoted animal welfare for more than twenty-five years, concentrating on regions of the world where few, if any, measures exist to protect animals.

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