Breaking: Ahold Delhaize commitment impacts an estimated 5–7 million hens and thousands of pigs impacted. Learn more
News
Get the latest news and updates from Animal Equality

Animal Equality President Speaks at Harvard Law School

As part of Animal Law Week, Sharon Nuñez discusses defending animals around the world in a talk at Harvard Law School.
April 17, 2018 Updated: April 23, 2025
Sharon Núñez speech at 10th anniversary in Madrid

Animal Equality’s co-founder and president, Sharon Nunez, joined Harvard Law School students at this year’s Animal Law Week. As an organization working hard across eight countries, Animal Equality wanted to share our strategic approach. We aimed to share the situation of animals in the countries we work in and what we are doing to help them. Currently, more than 56 billion farmed animals are raised and killed for food every year – and this figure doesn’t even include fish. While more than 94% of farmed animals killed for American consumers are chickens! A disparity exists between the number of farmed animals killed each year and the number of resources available to help them. More donations are given to animals killed in shelters, for fashion, and in labs. However, farmed animals suffer at staggeringly higher rates than these animals.

Animal Equality is an Effective Altruist organization, so our goal is to assure each and every person who supports our work, staff, volunteers, and donors, to be assured that we are doing as much as we can to reduce as much suffering as possible.


Latest News
March 16, 2026

Update March 5, 2025: Animal Equality joined other organizations outside the Court of Justice in Luxembourg, calling on the EU Commission to provide a clear timeline and fulfill its long-standing promise to animals. Update February 27, 2026: The European Commission released results from its largest-ever public consultation on farmed animal welfare. According…
March 10, 2026

An investigation on two Buenos Aires pig farms found routine mutilations, extreme confinement, and dead animals rotting amongst the living.
March 10, 2026

Dead piglets in drinking troughs. Injuries the size of a soccer ball. Footage from Spanish pig farms is fueling calls for stronger animal protection enforcement.