Which will you choose？ Cage-free? or Egg-smart?
Cage-free, Eggsmart, we want your company to make a change, and we are conducting a campaign. Please check the campaign site below.
Animal Rights Center
Japan Laboratory Animals, Inc. goes bankrupt
A well-known company in the laboratory animals industry, Japan Laboratory Animals, Inc*1, began its bankruptcy process on April 1, 2020.*2 This company was founded in 1949 and established in 1965. Mainly handling medium-sized animals such as monkeys, beagle dogs, and…
Eggs are unhealthy: why we shouldn’t eat them even though they’re cheap
Cover photo from Wikimedia Chicken eggs, which sometimes only cost about 10 yen (~0.10 USD/EUR) each, are often said to be nutritious… but should we really be eating them? The average person in Japan consumes as many as 337 eggs…
Starvation is an Ultimate Form of Animal Abuse
Say NO to Practice of Starving Animal to Death in Industry A broiler chicken company in Wakayama prefecture reportedly starved 140,000 chickens to death in 2020. The company belonged to the Arita Poultry Agricultural Cooperative. According to Wakayama prefecture, a…
Long-Neglected “Honey” Dies: what caused this tragedy are those who paid for aquariums
The dolphin “Honey”, who had been confined to a small cage called a pool at Inubosaki Marine Park (closed), died of obstructive enteritis, as released to the media on March 29 *1. When our partner organization PEACE checked, the last…
Ryokan goes cage-free only a week after knowing the truth: “Tabinoyado Saikawa”
In March 2020, we inquired the young owner of Tabinoyado Saikawa about making a cage-free declaration. This ryokan was an inn that newly created a vegan option, and they knew the significance of a lifestyle that promotes diversity and eliminates animal…
[Slaughterhouse in Japan] Tether too short to even lie down, tied overnight without even water
December 2019, midnight. At a slaughterhouse in Japan, this cow was tied with a very short rope passed through the nose ring, awaiting slaughter the next morning. The length of the rope was so short that the cow could…
Japan’s animal welfare, why it’s so behind
We will answer questions from people who wonder “Why is animal welfare in Japan so far behind the world”. Reason 1: In the first place, Japan’s animal agriculture is behind In Japan, there was no animal agriculture to begin with. …
2020 Awareness survey regarding livestock animals – The awareness remains low
Since 2016, Animal Rights Center Japan has been conducting a survey once a year using a private company to find out how much awareness there is about the actual rearing conditions of livestock animals. We have now conducted a survey…
HORIZON FARMS makes triple AW declarations, with cage-free and better chicken
HORIZON FARMS has made animal welfare declarations, one for stall-free in February, and then cage-free and better chicken in March. Horizon Farms, which has been procuring meat with commitment to animal welfare in rearing methods since its beginning, is a…
Revealing the Country’s Low Standards – Draft Animal Welfare Codes for Egg Laying Hens
The comments by our government were the worst The comments by our government were the worst The OIE (World Organization for Animal Health) submitted the third draft for animal welfare codes for egg laying hens. It will be adopted in…
Parliamentary League for Animal Welfare Established!
On 2020/2/19, the Parliamentary League for Animal Welfare was established as suprapartisan (including ruling, opposition, and independent parties) led by Constitutional Democratic Party members. The introduction said that the establishment was based on a strong desire to work on animal…
” Compassion for All Animals” T-shirt limited-supply sale begins
Due to popular demand, we’ve created the “Compassion for all animals” T-shirt with a limited supply. Refreshing design for the spring & summer born out of the logo for the March for Animals held on 2020 Being 100% organic cotton,…
HORIZON FARMS, caring about animal welfare since the beginning, declares stall-free
After considering animal welfare alone, HORIZON FARMS, which is committed to free-range grazing, has made a stall-free declaration, promising to never lock mother pigs into gestation stalls, now and in the future. According to HORIZON FARMS staff, they make procurements…
Remedies are there, the world is moving, Japan please follow! Broiler chicken welfare
Broiler chickens — 700 million are killed every year within Japan alone. Nearly double if imports are included. Japanese chickens suffer from overcrowding. Poultry farms in Japan are 1.7 times denser than in the EU and 1.8 times denser than…
Fur garment imports down 43% from last year. Down 89% from when the campaign began!
The 2000s were really terrible. Everyone had animal fur around their necks. In 2006, fur garment imports peaked and as many as 21,331,530 fur items were imported. This means in one year, 20 million people purchased fur garments. The campaign…
Good news! More and more fur-free companies! Mont Bell, Licht Bestreben、proef、mina perhonen、roundabout、YUKI、meagratia
noFollowing January, we’re very happy to be able to announce to youyou m fur-free companies. We will introduce the nice companies that has declared fur-free in the order that we received their response! meagratia: brand centered around the history of…
Peaceful March as a First Step to Changing Society: March for Animals – Compassion for All Animals
On January 26, “March for Animals — Compassion for All Animals” was held in Tokyo. 326 people marched in Shibuya, Omotesando, and Harajuku, calling for compassion for all animals and eliminating animal suffering. This time was a new endeavor. To…
Good news: More and more fur-free companies! WCJ、CORONA、49、beauty:beast
At Animal Rights Center Japan, we’re advancing surveys of the apparel industry about handling of fur. In 2020 at this point, there have already been 6 companies that revealed being fur-free. The following companies newly revealed their fur-free policies this…
Good news! Honeys Holdings for teens apparel is fur-free!
Honeys Holdings, famous for casual fashion for teens, turns out to be fur-free! Although Honeys had not replied as being fur-free as a company despite having already stopped handling real fur a while ago, and therefore could not be called…