In a blog post, Humane World for Animals—formerly known as the Humane Society of the United States—called on financial institutions to implement animal welfare strategies into their core funding policies and practices.
“Many major financial players, such as Citigroup, Bank of America, Barclays, JP Morgan Chase, HSBC, Santander and Credit Suisse, among others still lack any public-facing commitments to animal welfare,” the group said.
They noted that private financial institutions hold assets in the world’s largest animal production companies, “financing and investments likely made without meaningful consideration of farm animal welfare or the many other harms of industrial animal agriculture.” The group said financial institutions should incentivize “higher-welfare systems” and shift capital toward plant-forward food systems.
