Why We Don't Recommend Donating to Animal Justice
Accurate as of: Jul 7, 2026
Animal Justice is a Canadian charity that does litigation, policy work, and traditional advocacy work.
We do not think Animal Justice's work is efficient at helping farm animals. This is partly because they devote significant resources to issues unrelated to factory farming, such as puppy mills.
Animal Justice's Litigation
Litigation can be a great tool for helping animals. However, the only successful Animal Justice lawsuit we could find that relates to farm animals is a 2024 case striking down an Ontario law that restricted people's ability to record footage of factory farms. Additionally, this victory was later overturned.
Based on this, litigation for farm animals seems to be a relatively small part of Animal Justice's overall work.
Animal Justice's Policy Work
Successful policy work generally requires:
We do not see meaningful evidence that Animal Justice has any of this, so we would not expect their policy work to be very impactful.
For additional context, please see our article on policy work.
Animal Justice's Traditional Advocacy
Spreading messages in an influential manner can be a great way to help farm animals. However, traditional advocacy work tends to be a poor way to accomplish this, and we do not see meaningful evidence that Animal Justice's work is an exception to this.
For additional context, please see our article on traditional advocacy charities.
Conclusion
We do not think Animal Justice's work is efficient at helping farm animals. Accordingly, we do not recommend donating to them at this time.
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