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Break
the cycle
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END.IT

We need to urgently transform our food system and your voice counts

How we produce our food is contributing to climate chaos. Animal farming – dominated by factory farmingis a major contributor to climate disasters, fuelling a vicious cycle of floods, droughts and deadly storms. In their wake: mass animal deaths, displaced communities, failed crops and collapsing ecosystems —threatening our food, water, and livelihoods.

Demand world leaders urgently draw up a fair food and farming plan that protects animals, people, and the planet.

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Photo: Emilia-Romagna Floods, Italy, 2023. Stefano Belacchi / Essere Animali / We Animals

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The Climate Cost of Factory Farming

Animal farming is one of the biggest drivers of climate change. Globally, agriculture is responsible for 14.5% of total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions — with the livestock sector producing more direct GHG emissions than all the world’s planes, trains, and cars combined. Agriculture is dominated by industrial factory farms that threaten our environment and pollute our air, soil, and water. These emissions accelerate global warming and fuel increasingly severe weather events, including floods, wildfires, and droughts.

From heatwaves in Europe to hurricanes in the U.S. to floods in Brazil, climate disasters are exposing the true cost of our food system. These extreme weather disasters are relentlessly killing thousands of people and millions of farmed animals. Too often, animals trapped in factory farms are the forgotten victims — left to endure unimaginable suffering, facing starvation, dehydration, and death from drowning or collapsing infrastructure.

As climate change intensifies, extreme weather will become more common, causing further misery for animals and farmers and worsening food insecurity. Factory farming drives this cycle of suffering -  and we’re all paying the price.

Photo credit: Wildfire in Tabolango, Region de Valparaíso, Chile, 2012. Renata Valdivia / We Animals

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A sustainable future for food and farming 

By transforming the way we produce and consume food, we can ensure healthy and nutritious food while protecting animals, providing fair livelihoods and regenerating our farmlands, but we must act now.

We’re building a global movement of citizens and organisations calling on world leaders to transform the way we produce and consume food. We need to shift to nature-friendly farming systems that help restore biodiversity and soils and keep the global increase in average temperatures below 1.5˚C.

Will you be part of the solution?

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Petition to world leaders

There is an urgent need to transform the food system. If the global community is to meet the Sustainable Development Goals, the Paris Climate Agreement targets and the goals of the Convention on Biological Diversity, action must be taken to end intensive animal farming.

We, the undersigned, call on world leaders to develop a Global Agreement on food and farming for adoption by the United Nations General Assembly, with the objective being to move away from industrial animal agriculture and:

  • Shift to nature-positive farming systems that help restore biodiversity and soils and keep the global increase in average temperatures below 1.5˚C.
  • Reverse over-reliance on animal protein in high consuming populations and support equitable, secure access to nutritious food.
  • Ensure a just transition to a global food system that provides fair livelihoods for farmers and protects the rights of indigenous peoples, women, and vulnerable communities.
  • Achieve a financial and regulatory environment which helps to secure the above transition.
  • Deliver high standards of farmed animal welfare.

Organisations supporting the call for a Global Agreement

  • World Animal Protection logo
  • Compassion in World Farming logo
  • Djurens Ratt logo
  • We Animals Media logo
  • Eurogroup for Animals logo
  • Sinergia Animal logo
  • The Humane League logo
  • Animals Aotearoa logo
  • Humane Education logo
  • Federation of Indian Animal Protection Organisations logo
  • Fórum Animal logo
  • World Animal Justice logo

Factory farming is destroying our planet and harming all who live on it. It is the world’s biggest cause of animal cruelty, it’s fuelling climate change and it’s damaging our health. Please sign END.IT to ensure a better future for all.

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