Fórum Nacional de Proteção e Defesa Animal — Crate- and Cage-Free Campaigning in Brazil (2018)

[Farm Animal Welfare] Grant investigator: Lewis Bollard This page was reviewed but not written by the grant investigator. Fórum Nacional de Proteção e Defesa Animal staff also reviewed this page prior to publication. The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $200,000 over two years to Fórum Nacional de Proteção e Defesa Animal (FNPDA) for campaigning to reduce the use of battery cages for layer hens and gestation crates for pigs in Brazil. FNPDA has played a role in securing crate-free pledges from Brazil’s four largest pork producers and cage-free pledges from 26 Brazilian food companies, and intends to use these funds to continue its corporate campaigns, to start a tracker of corporate implementation of cage-free pledges, and to host a conference with egg producers, food companies, scientists, and activists to discuss implementation. This is a renewal of our October 2016 support and falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare.