Wakker Dier () is a
Dutch animal welfare
Animal welfare is the quality of life and overall well-being of animals. Formal standards of animal welfare vary between contexts, but are debated mostly by animal welfare groups, legislators, and academics. Animal welfare science uses measures ...
organisation. Its main purpose is putting an end to
factory farming
Intensive animal farming, industrial livestock production, and macro-farms, also known as factory farming, is a type of intensive agriculture, specifically an approach to mass animal husbandry designed to maximize production while minimizing co ...
. Wakker Dier was founded in 1997 and fused with the organisation ''Lekker Dier'' in 2001, but the name didn't change.
Marianne Thieme
Marianne Louise Thieme (; born 6 March 1972) is a Dutch politician, author and animal rights activist. A jurist and theologian by education, she served as the Party for the Animals' political leader from 2002 to 2019 and a member of the House of R ...
was the foundation's president from 2004 to 2006. Wakker Dier has had several successful campaigns, most notably the one against
battery cages (since 2003 super markets stopped selling eggs from chickens raised there) and the one against the castrating of conscious pigs (
Hema and
Unox have said they will stop selling meat from unanaesthetised pigs by 2009).
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Organizations established in 1998
Animal welfare organisations based in the Netherlands