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Animal Welfare Institute
AWI is a non-profit charitable organization founded in 1951 to reduce the sum total of pain and fear inflicted on animals by humans.
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Specific goals are
* Refinement of the housing and handling of laboratory animals;
* Development and use of non-animal testing methods;
* Prohibition on use of steel jaw leghold traps and reform of other cruel methods of controlling wildlife;
* Preservation of species threatened with extinction;
* Strict regulation of humane transport conditions for all animals; and
* Reform of cruel production systems for the rearing of farm animals.
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