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.

• 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