Whether they dream about enjoying warm sunlight on their feathers, munching on some juicy watermelon (a favorite snack!), or beating the chicken world record of flying for more than 13 seconds—we’re not sure.

But on the subject of dreams, here’s one of ours: A world where no baby chick faces life in a cage.

We’re so much closer to that world than we were a few years ago. Thanks to compassionate people like you—who have pressured corporations to phase out brutal “battery cages”—the percentage of hens raised outside cages has gone from 6% to 39% in the last eight years.

Because of your commitment to this work, I’m reaching out to you with our plan of action for this year. My colleagues and I have found that pressuring companies to phase out battery cages has the biggest direct impact on sparing animals from suffering.

This year, we’re setting out to raise enough funds to empty 4,300 battery cages. We did the math, and we found that based on our corporate pressure campaigns, it costs us $16 to empty one entire cage of hens. But that $16 doesn’t just empty a single cage. It keeps it empty—and ensures no animal gets put in that cage ever again.

Ending cruel cages is achievable within our lifetime. But it’s going to take all of us. Will you consider making a monthly gift of any size—especially since just $16 can empty a cage for good?

For the animals,

P.S. I know how painful it is to think about what happens on factory farms. After all, we’re human. But when you decide to take action instead of pushing that pain aside, you help mend our broken food system. You change millions of lives for the better. You literally change the world. So thank you for reading.

P.P.S. A note on our math: For a deeper dive into the numbers, you can read about how we calculated the $16 estimate on our blog—and why we’ve focused our collective energy on chickens, who represent 90% of all land animals raised for food.