The Animal Welfare Institute prepares brief fact sheets on a variety of topics related to the use of animals in agriculture. Each of the following fact sheets is available as a downloadable PDF.

About 9 billion land animals are slaughtered for food in the United States each year. The average person in America consumes significantly more meat than is recommended. In fact, the average ...

These 13-year-old brothers were born at the Lowry Park Zoo in January 1999. Konrad and Niko are cautious when exploring or doing something new, and they typically stay close together. The brothers ...

Grazing animals sometimes get free and wander into barnyards, trails, woods, or ornamental plantings where they can’t resist feeding. Well-meaning neighbors might think the animals look undernourished ...

Animal fact sheet for the animals featured in BBC One's Hidden Kingdoms. Grasshopper Mice Grasshopper mice have captured the interest of researchers as they hunt scorpions whose venom could kill a ...

Animal fact sheet for the animals featured in BBC One's Hidden Kingdoms.