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1) Since its founding in 1951, AWI has sought to alleviate the suffering inflicted on animals by people

2) In the organization's early years, our particular emphasis was on the desperate needs of animals used for experimentation

3) Today, one of our greatest areas of emphasis is cruel animal factories, which raise and slaughter pigs, cows, chickens and other animals.

4) In the decades that followed, we expanded the scope of our work to address many other areas of animal suffering.

5) AWI effort is our quest to end the torture inflicted on furbearing animals by steel jaw leghold traps and wire snares.

6) AWI continues its work to protect animals in laboratories including promotion of development of non-animal testing methods and prevention of painful experiments on animals by high school students.

7) AWI works to minimize the impacts of all human actions detrimental to endangered species, including the destruction of natural forests containing ancient trees, and pollution of the oceans destroying every kind of marine life.

8) Commission to preserve the ban on commercial whaling, and we work to protect all marine life against the proliferation of human-generated ocean noise including active sonar and seismic air guns.

9) Representatives of AWI regularly attend meetings of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora to fight for protection of threatened and endangered species

10) The biggest are in our country, and they are expanding worldwide.

11) **Half a century ago, family farms were prevalent.** Animals grazed on pasture, breathing fresh air, and feeling sunshine on their backs. During inclement weather, they were sheltered in straw-bedded barns. 12) In contrast, the rearing of farm animals today is dominated by [|industrialized facilities] that maximize profits by treating animals not as sentient creatures, but as production units 13) Raised by the thousands, at a single site, animals are confined in such tight quarters that they can scarcely move, let alone behave normally. Such production creates what appears to be “cheap” meat, eggs, and dairy products

14) Over 9 billion chickens, pigs, cattle, turkeys, sheep, goats, ducks, and geese are bred, raised, and killed for food annually in America. Each is a social, feeling individual capable of experiencing pleasure but realistically the vast majority are familiar with deprivation, fear, and pain. 15) Of concern to AWI are all aspects of a farm animal’s life including breeding, growing, [|transport], and [|slaughter]. Each phase offers the opportunity for cruelty or compassion.