Help us urge state legislators to set policies that require farm operations with farmed animals in high-risk disaster-prone areas to adopt higher-welfare practices to protect animals, the environment, and communities in natural disasters.
The concentration of farms and animals means that when disasters do strike, like during Hurricane Florence two years ago, millions of animals are killed and injured.
Climate change is increasing the severity and frequency of disasters. We must also work to build greater resilience to the consequences of a changing climate.
Certain areas of the US are at higher risk of for disasters like hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, wildfires, blizzards or extreme heatwaves. These are vulnerable areas that are completely inappropriate for intensive farms for animals.
Animals confined to cages, like sows, laying hens, or veal calves, are unable to escape. During Hurricane Florence, industrial farmers chose to leave the animals locked up to drown to collect the insurance money.
These animals were treated like commodities, not like the sentient animals they are.