farm animals
Milk, cheese, and yogurt made entirely from plants like oats, almonds, or soy are called this.
What are plant-based (or dairy-free) foods?
This term describes the basic ability of animals to experience feelings, pain, pleasure, and emotional states.
What is sentience?
The illegal hunting, capturing, or killing of protected wild animals is known by this term.
What is poaching?
The popular 3-word slogan that encourages people to get a pet from a shelter instead of a store is "Adopt, Don't..."
What is Shop?
True or False: Products featuring the "Leaping Bunny" logo guarantee that no animal testing occurred at any stage of product development.
What is True?
Eggs labeled "free-range" come from hens that are not kept in these small metal enclosures.
what are cages?
Passed in 1966, this U.S. federal law is the primary legislation regulating the treatment of animals in research and transport.
What is the Animal Welfare Act (AWA)?
Clearing massive areas of tropical forests for things like cattle ranching or palm oil production causes the destruction of animal...
What are habitats (or forests)?
TNR is a humane method used to manage community cats. It stands for Trap, Neuter, and... (hint: starts with an r)
What is Return?
True or False: Fish lack the physiological neural structures required to feel physical pain or stress.
What is False?
A safe sanctuary place where rescued farm animals live out their lives peacefully is called an animal...
What is a sanctuary?
These controversial state laws attempt to criminalize undercover investigations, whistleblowing, and filming inside factory farms.
What are Ag-Gag laws?
Strips of natural habitat that connect wildlife populations separated by highways are called wildlife...
What are corridors (or crossings)?
These large-scale, profit-driven commercial breeding facilities prioritize volume over the health and welfare of dogs.
What are puppy mills?
True or False: Purebred and young animals can never be found in animal shelters or breed-specific rescues.
What is false. (25% of shelter animals are purebred)
Meat produced directly from animal cells in a lab, avoiding the need for animal slaughter, is known by this term.
What is cultivated meat
In 2021, this South American country made history by ruling in its Constitutional Court that wild animals have legally enforceable rights.
What is Ecuador?
CITES is an international agreement designed to protect endangered species from overexploitation through international...
What is trade?
Inserting a tiny electronic identification device about the size of a grain of rice under a pet's skin is called...
What is microchipping?
True or False: "Ag-Gag" laws are designed to protect whistleblowers who expose animal abuse in industrial farming facilities.
What is False? (They actually criminalize the activists and workers who record or report abuse).
These restrictive metal pens, where pregnant pigs spend most of their lives, are so small the animals cannot even turn around.
What are gestation crates?
# of major beauty and personal care companies which still commission or allows animal testing?
what is 268?
Reintroducing a top predator, like wolves to Yellowstone, triggers this ecological chain reaction that restores the health of the entire ecosystem.
What is a trophic cascade?
This # of cats are adopted more than dogs each year.
True or False: Under the U.S. Animal Welfare Act (AWA), rats, mice, and birds bred for biomedical research are fully protected under standard federal housing and care guidelines.
What is False? (Rats, mice, and birds bred for research are explicitly excluded from protections under the AWA).