The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) is a non-profit charitable organization founded in 1951 to reduce the sum total of pain and fear inflicted on animals by humans.

Our legislative division, the Society for Animal Protective Legislation (SAPL), pushes for the passage of laws that reflect this purpose.

• Abolishing factory farms and achieving humane slaughter for all animals raised for meat

• Improving the housing and handling of animals used for experimentation and pushing for the development of animal research alternatives

• Ending the use of steel-jaw leghold traps and reforming other cruel methods of controlling wildlife populations

• Preserving species threatened with extinction and protecting wildlife
  in international trade

• Enforcing strict regulation of transport conditions for all animals

• Encouraging animal-friendly science teaching and preventing painful experiments on animals by students