After meetings with Mercy For Animals team members, U.S. egg producer Kipster announced plans to switch to in-ovo sexing. Typically, male chicks in the egg industry are killed shortly after hatching because they are of no use to the industry. In-ovo sexing avoids this killing by enabling producers to identify eggs holding male embryos and destroy the eggs before the embryos develop into sentient chicks. This will spare around 75,000 to 100,000 birds each year.

Transfarmation™ is one of seven finalists for a prestigious global environmental award, The Curt Bergfors Food Planet Prize. This nomination underscores the significant impact of our work to bring factory farming into conversations about the environment and climate change.

Two of our farmed animal priorities have been included in the Senate version of the Farm Bill, a massive piece of U.S. legislation that covers a wide range of agricultural and food programs. Our measures focus on transitioning factory farms to plant-based operations and mandating federal reporting on mass killing of animals at farms.

Our first investigation in Chile brought attention to the suffering of hens caged for egg production. Three of the country's largest media outlets covered the investigation. We are urging Chilean companies to spare hens extreme confinement by banning the use of cages in their egg supply chains.

Mercy For Animals is thrilled to announce the opening of our Malaysian office, expanding our efforts to protect animals in Southeast Asia. With this new addition, we are now active in Brazil, Canada, India, Malaysia, Mexico, and the United States. We look forward to making a major impact in the region.