Hello everyone! Here you can find the June updates from Animal Equality. We hope that you find it helpful and inspiring. We also include our current job openings. Thank you!
Animal Equality - US
Our campaign against Ahold Delhaize intensified with a month of protests in the Netherlands over its failure to eliminate cages. We also launched a global campaign against Marriott Hotels, protesting in multiple countries for their lack of cage-free progress. Additionally, we introduced the Getting Started section on our Love Veg page.
Hiring:
- Undercover Investigator (Full-time, remote; exempt)
Animal Equality - UK
We secured a legal victory, enabling animal welfare to be considered in planning decisions, which could have a seismic impact on influencing and blocking future factory farm proposals. We also published an expert-led report on farrowing cages for pigs after gathering over 120 hours of footage, advocated for stronger law enforcement in Parliament, and filed a complaint over 135,000 cleanerfish deaths on a Scottish salmon farm.
Animal Equality - Spain
Actresses Elisabeth Larena and Lucía Martín Abello joined our campaign exposing Spain’s dairy industry. We called for stronger pig protection laws, including bans on mutilations and gestation crates. Additionally, we joined the protest in Congress to demand an EU-wide end to cages, and are preparing recommendations for the EU consultation on ending cages and male chick killing.
Hirings:
- Donor Relations Coordinator (Full-time, hybrid; applications accepted on a rolling basis)
Animal Equality - Germany
We continued to protest vigorously – both online and in person – against the confinement of pigs and chickens in Ahold Delhaize’s US supply chains. We also published an interview with our undercover investigator, and showed our virtual reality project iAnimal to the Vainstream music Festival attendees.
Hirings:
- Online Marketing Coordinator (Full-time, remote in Germany; applications accepted on a rolling basis)
Animal Equality - Brazil
We presented Congress with over 80,000 signatures urging the end of cages in the country. We encouraged public participation in the Government's consultation on Self Control Law regulation. Additionally, we released a report on the EU-Mercosur Free Trade Agreement's impact on animal welfare and the environment.
Animal Equality - India
We are working with food companies like Hilton and Hyatt to stop using eggs from caged hens. Simultaneously, our ongoing collaboration with producers to cease cage use has already positively impacted 4,600 hens.
Animal Equality - Mexico
As part of our Love Veg program, we launched the Guide to Eating Better at University and introduced iAnimal at the National Polytechnic Institute. We held protests urging Toks and Marriott to meet their cage-free commitments. After months of advocacy, Chiapas state has criminalized animal abuse, though farmed animals are not included.
Animal Equality - Italy
We joined the first hearing of a major trial on illegal horse slaughter in Puglia, standing as a civil party. We also welcomed progress on ending the killing of male chicks, as the Agriculture Ministry announced the guidelines for the introduction of in-ovo sexing in Italian hatcheries; we now await the official text.
