Effective Animal ActionWays to help animals, ranked by impact.
AI collects bills, petitions, and campaigns from 10 leading animal organizations, and then ranks them by the difference you can make.
Updated 11 Nov 2026 · 30 actions taken so far
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Message your Senators to oppose the Save Our Bacon Act in the Farm Bill
Compassion in World FarmingThe House has passed a Farm Bill containing a provision that would stop states from setting welfare standards for meat and dairy sold within their borders.
120points - 2
Tell Compass Group USA to ban Frankenchickens from its supply chain
Mercy For AnimalsFrankenchickens are bred to grow so fast they reach 6.54 pounds in 47 days, six times faster than in 1925, and their immature bones often cannot support them.
120points - 3
Tell Congress to oppose the Food Security and Farm Protection Act
Mercy For AnimalsThe bill would wipe out state laws that ban selling eggs or meat from animals kept in extreme confinement, including laws covering laying hens, mother pigs and veal calves.
120points - 4
Message the FDA to quickly implement its rule that drugs need no animal tests
Humane World for AnimalsDogs, monkeys, rats and other animals are kept in barren laboratory settings, given or injected with potentially toxic substances, and typically killed when tests end. 90% of drugs found safe and effective in animal tests fail in human trials.
120points - 5
Send Costco a message demanding enforceable chicken welfare standards
Mercy For AnimalsAn undercover investigation at a farm supplying Costco documented chicks buried alive while still chirping and birds beaten with sticks and rakes.
90points - 6
Sign the petition to end chick culling in the egg industry
Mercy For AnimalsAbout 7 billion male chicks are killed each year worldwide, mostly within hours of hatching, because they cannot lay eggs.
90points - 7
Email your favorite grocery store to offer more humanely bred chicken
Compassion in World FarmingMost chickens raised in the US are bred to grow so large, so quickly that many can hardly walk, and their legs are crushed by their own weight.
80points - 8
Email your Senators to endorse the OCTOPUS Act banning octopus farming
Compassion in World FarmingOctopuses are solitary and intelligent, and they would be kept in crowded tanks where they can injure themselves by crashing into walls or fighting.
80points - 9
Tell Kroger to end cage confinement for hens
The Humane LeagueHens in Kroger's egg supply are kept in cages with about the space of a sheet of paper each, unable to move freely, spread their wings or nest.
80points - 10
Call your U.S. Representative to protect the Endangered Species Act
Humane World for AnimalsThe House's ESA Amendments Act, H.R. 1897, would weaken the Endangered Species Act and make it harder for vulnerable species to recover.
80points - 11
Send Unilever a message to honour its pledge to end hen cages
The Humane LeagueUnilever promised to stop keeping hens in cruel cages, then abandoned that commitment.
60points - 12
Email Kroger board member Amanda Sourry to push Kroger to end hen cages
Animal EqualityHens in Kroger's supply are kept in cages so small they cannot spread their wings.
40points - 13
Write to your U.S. Representative to support the Replace Act
Cruelty Free InternationalLegally required federal safety and efficacy tests still use animals, even where reliable non-animal methods exist.
40points - 14
Contact your U.S. Representative to back H.R. 8870 horse slaughter protections
Animal EqualityThe House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee has adopted language to stop American horses being transported to slaughter.
40points - 15
Contact your U.S. lawmakers to pass the Captive Primate Safety Act
Humane World for AnimalsInfant monkeys are taken from their mothers shortly after birth to be sold as pets, which can cause lifelong physical and psychological problems.
40points - 16
Email your members of Congress to support Goldie's Act for puppy mill dogs
ASPCAUSDA regulations allow dogs in licensed commercial breeding facilities to go without adequate food, water, shelter and vet care, and dogs can be kept for life in tiny wire-floored cages.
40points - 17
Email your U.S. representatives to pass the PAST Act against soring
ASPCASoring causes pain to show horses' legs and feet so they step high in an exaggerated gait.
40points - 18
Urge the Massachusetts committee to keep the ban on pet store dog and cat sales
ASPCAPuppy mills are commercial breeders that keep dogs in poor conditions and supply pet shops with puppies and kittens.
40points - 19
Email your members of Congress to cosponsor the Supporting Our Shelters Act
ASPCAIn 2025, 5.8 million cats and dogs entered shelters and rescues across the United States, but only 4.2 million were adopted.
40points - 20
Sign the petition asking CJ Group to end cages in its egg supply chain
Open Wing Alliance
CJ Group, the Korean conglomerate behind Bibigo, Red Baron, Freschetta and Tous les Jours, sources eggs from hens kept in barren cages the campaign describes as no bigger than a microwave.
30points - 21
Message the EPA to end the 90-day dog pesticide test
Humane World for AnimalsDogs are dosed with pesticides daily for three months, and all are killed when the test ends.
30points - 22
Sign the petition asking your state representatives to ban cat declawing
Humane World for AnimalsDeclawing amputates part of a cat's toes, which can cause chronic pain, behavioral problems and lifelong health problems.
20points - 23
Email Dell's board about Kevin Brown, a Kroger director behind its cage-free retreat
Animal EqualityKroger abandoned its pledge to source only cage-free eggs, leaving millions of hens in cages with little room to move.
20points - 24
Comment against weaker chronic wasting disease rules for deer herds
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Chronic wasting disease is a fatal prion disease that spreads among deer, elk and moose.
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15points - 25
Add your name to the statement speaking up for gray wolves
Humane World for AnimalsThe US Fish and Wildlife Service has said it will not release the National Wolf Recovery Plan expected in December, and it no longer thinks wolves deserve Endangered Species Act protection.
10points - 26
Sign the petition to stop cruel trophy hunting of black bears
Humane World for AnimalsSpring hunts often leave orphaned cubs who cannot survive without their mothers, and hunters use bait, packs of hounds and, in two states, snares.
10points - 27
Sign the petition asking the USDA to enforce standards for dog breeders
ASPCAUSDA standards allow a dog to be kept for her entire life in a tiny, wire-floored cage and bred at every opportunity with no time to recover.
10points