Our Impact
What We’ve Achieved
We believe that all food-producing animals should be raised in a humane and healthy manner, and that everyone should have access to safe and humanely produced food. Since 1982, FACT has been leading the charge to make that vision a reality.
We provide critical resources to help farmers adopt humane practices, advocate for food safety, and guide consumers in making healthy food choices. Our impact is powerful and growing.
Improving the Welfare of Farm Animals
Direct grants to farmers support humane farming methods, open pasture, improved living conditions and more. Since 1982, these programs have supported the well-being of an estimated 978,000+ animals.
Reducing the Overuse of Antibiotics
Thanks in large part to our work, the FDA prohibited the use of medically important antibiotics to make animals grow faster, and most major restaurant chains have adopted policies reducing antibiotic overuse by their meat suppliers. Together, these efforts have led to measurable drops in sales of antibiotics for use in animals.
Ensuring Safe and Healthy Food
FACT played a leading role in convincing the FDA to prohibit the use of dangerous arsenic containing feed additives in chickens and pigs and to require egg farms to eliminate the food-borne pathogen Salmonella.
We believe in a more equitable food system. On June 19, 2020, we announced our renewed commitment to diversifying our leadership and expanding our outreach to Black, Indigenous, and people of color. As a result, since 2021 nearly half of our farmer grants have supported BIPOC farmers.
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OUR VISION
All food-producing animals will be raised in a humane and healthy manner, and everyone will have access to safe and humanely-produced food.
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OUR MISSION
FACT advances our vision that all food-producing animals are raised in a humane and healthy manner. We accomplish this by supporting humane farmers, promoting policies that make foods from animals safe and healthy to eat, and helping consumers make informed food choices.
OUR CORE VALUES
COMPASSION
FACT is guided by compassion for farm animals, whose suffering can only be alleviated by the end of factory farming and all inhumane farming practices.
RESPECT
FACT respects and promotes the health and wellbeing of farm animals, human beings, and the environment.
EQUITY
FACT advances fairness, opportunity, and social and environmental justice.
LEARNING
FACT is guided by science, data, and the experience and knowledge of farmers.
INTEGRITY
FACT maintains the highest standards of accountability and stewardship of our resources.
TRANSPARENCY
FACT operates with honesty, clarity, and openness.
COLLABORATION
FACT is committed to working in partnership with other organizations to achieve its mission.
SAFETY
FACT promotes natural animal farming methods that produce healthy and safe food.