We’re excited to share that Faunalytics has had a strong start to our year, thanks to the efforts of our staff, volunteers, collaborators, and the supporters who make our work possible. We’re on a mission to provide advocates with the best research available to help them be as effective as possible for animals, and we’re not slowing down. The first major update is that we redesigned our website! In the process of launching a new and improved faunalytics.org, we focused on creating a better user experience and bringing more of our work “to the surface.” We improved our menu structure and sear ..read more

[CONTENT NOTE: This blog contains some graphic depictions of animal industry-related violence and cruelty.] Many Faunalytics readers may already be familiar with undercover animal cruelty investigations. You may remember the beatings and neglect inflicted on newborn dairy calves exposed by the 2019 Fair Oaks Farm investigation by Animal Recovery Mission. Or you might have watched Mercy for Animals’ recent documentation of crushed and suffocated pigs in cramped gestation crates at a Nebraska farm.  As these examples — and many others — show, undercover investigations are a potent tool ..read more

Faunalytics conducts and collects social science research—much of which can benefit the managers and staff of farmed animal sanctuaries. In this brief guide, we highlight some studies that we think can help sanctuaries the most. While much of this research is specific to the U.S., many of the lessons can be applied to other contexts. Keep in mind that these studies don’t concern welfare—if you’re looking for welfare-related resources, check out the Open Sanctuary Project or search the Faunalytics library with a specific question. Promoting Your Value To Funders To demonstrate the role of sanct ..read more

Faunalytics is now accepting applications for our Content Manager! Our Content Manager is responsible for overseeing and maintaining Faunalytics’ Research Library, supporting other team members with developing and editing public-facing content, and working alongside the Content Director to drive the overall vision and execution of Faunalytics’ content plan.  Responsibilities: Research Library Gather salient and relevant research articles from various sources to be added to the Research Library database, ensuring there is a good mix of animal issues represented. Oversee the weekly summar ..read more

Each month, our Faunalytics Index provides a round-up of data, statistics, and facts gleaned from the most recent research we’ve covered in our library. Our aim is to give you a quick overview of some of the most eye-catching and informative bits of data that could help you be more effective in your advocacy for animals. If you want to know more about any given statistic, follow the links below, read the source articles, and dive deeper into the issues. $103.6 billion The amount of money that U.S. adults spent on their companion animals in 2020 — more than triple the amount spent twenty y ..read more

At Faunalytics, we aim to convey the importance of using data to set strategy, making evidence-based decisions. We do the same ourselves, conducting this annual survey to help us understand how you’re using our resources, which ones are most helpful, and where we have opportunities to grow to better support the movement.  This blog is a key step in our own annual impact monitoring journey, sharing the findings from our latest Community Survey with you. Below, we explore the quantitative and qualitative results, and give you a sneak preview of how we plan to make use of them this year and ..read more

Each year, the Animal and Vegan Advocacy Summit brings together animal advocates from around the world with the goal of inspiring and connecting us to make a difference for animals. This sounds like a lofty goal to be sure, but in practical terms, it is a 4-day opportunity for advocates to learn from each other, build and strengthen relationships through networking, strategize about future directions… and also have a little fun. Going to the AVA Summit can feel like a bit of a family reunion. You see colleagues and friends that you likely haven’t seen in person for months or years, you spend ..read more

Each month, our Faunalytics Index provides a round-up of data, statistics, and facts gleaned from the most recent research we’ve covered in our library. Our aim is to give you a quick overview of some of the most eye-catching and informative bits of data that could help you be more effective in your advocacy for animals. If you want to know more about any given statistic, follow the links below, read the source articles, and dive deeper into the issues. 41% The percentage of U.S. animal guardians who said they acquired their companions from sources other than shelters. Read More 46 bi ..read more

As advocates for animals in the industrial food system, we tend to emphasize the factory farm. That makes a lot of sense: nine billion chickens, for example, spend their short, sad lives on factory farms each year in the U.S. alone, so raising awareness of their suffering, lobbying for better laws to protect them, persuading people not to eat them, and so on, is necessarily a core part of our work.  At the same time, industrial food animal production (IFAP) is a huge and sprawling system that relies on the factory farm but also extends far beyond it. The mass conversion of animals into fo ..read more

Latest Update: May 2024 Next Scheduled Update: May 2025 Welcome to the Faunalytics Global Animal Slaughter Statistics & Charts hub. In this comprehensive resource, we look at the number of animals slaughtered globally for food every year, based on data gathered by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Source The data for land animals comes from the FAOSTAT database. The data for fish was pulled from the database “Global Production By Production Source 1950-2021,” the most recent dataset, which can be found in FishStatJ, the software for fishery and aquacul ..read more