This year’s eligible projects will provide new evidence or illustration of the impacts of industrial (i.e. intensive) and less-industrial (i.e. extensive)- animal-farming systems on human well-being in the U.S.
More than 9.5 billion chickens, turkeys, pigs, and cows are slaughtered every year for food in the United States. The vast majority of these animals are raised on “factory farms,” where they are confined in huge numbers in barren, industrial settings. These facilities are not just inhumane, they are also environmentally unsound and dangerous for public health. But it doesn’t have to be this way. The ASPCA is calling for increased transparency in animal agriculture, an end to the cruelest factory farming practices, and adequate funding for a more humane food system. Learn more about our work.
Projects will be considered that help to publicly establish, document, or illustrate the negative intersections between factory farming practices and human welfare in the United States, or in the reverse, correlate improved human outcomes, to less intensive farming practices. The resulting materials must be made public and should present new evidence, narratives, ideas, solutions, or approaches to researching this topic. Final materials may be written (such as reports or articles) or audio/visual (such as videos, photos, webinars, podcasts, or infographics). Any research conducted need not be formal or academic; both field research and desk research are eligible.
ASPCA is particularly interested in funding projects related to:
Projects need not focus on animal welfare as long as they contribute to the effort to transition away from factory farming toward less-intensive methods.
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