Anima International
Bio
We are an international organization which helps animals, particularly farmed animals, as effectively as possible. To help us achieve our goal we use scientific evidence, careful reasoning and decades of experience.
We are impact oriented and use a wide array of tools to make the world a better place. Our current toolkit includes:
- groundbreaking global investigations which expose animal suffering hidden behind the walls of factory farms,
- negotiations with companies to make them ban the most cruel practices,
- advocacy to secure legal milestones for animals,
- influencing markets to introduce animal-friendly approaches,
- in addition to this, we work to strengthen the capacity of the animal advocacy movement.
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Fulfilling their commitment to phase out caged-eggs, made at the start of our cage-free campaign in 2016, Lidl Poland (the second-largest retailer) has announced that they are now 100% cage-free, affecting millions of hens annually.
To hold retailers accountable to their pledge to stop selling caged eggs by 01/01/26, our French team recently published an investigation into supermarkets that still sell caged eggs, which garnered significant national media attention. We estimate that between TV, radio and online coverage the news of the investigation will have reached several million people. The pressure from this prompted multiple responses from the retailers to the media about their cage-free commitments.
Our UK team, formerly known as Open Cages, has rebranded as Anima, reflecting their role as part of Anima International which is active across six countries and focused on the highest-impact interventions for animals. Our UK work remains centred on eliminating fast-growing chicken breeds, which currently account for ~90% of the over one billion chickens raised in the UK annually.
The animal advocacy movement in Central Asia is small but developing. Together with our partners in Kazakhstan, we announced the second annual conference on animal advocacy in Central Asia (CAAAF — Central Asian Animal Advocacy Forum), taking place on 04/04/2026.
Jobs
Anima International is hiring for a Campaigner in Denmark (hybrid, salary DKK 26,500–36,000). Find out more and apply by February 22nd.
Updates
- For the past six years, we’ve campaigned alongside other organizations in Norway to end the use of fast-growing chicken breeds – one of the cruelest practices in modern animal farming. Last month, Norway's meat industry announced complete elimination of fast-growing chickens by the end of 2027. These birds currently make up ~60% of over 70 million chickens farmed for meat in the country each year. The industry also announced introducing in-ovo sexing of egg-laying chicks to end the killing of male chicks in egg production. More in our blog post by Niklas Fjeldberg.
- As we continue working to end cages for hens in Poland, the percentage of hens in cages dropped to 63.68% by the end of 2025. Following dialogue with us, several companies fulfilled their cage-free commitments in January, including retail chain Netto (~287,000 hens per year), Stokrotka, Qubus hotel, and bakery chain Sowa – the target of a campaign we wrote about in a previous update.
- In Denmark, we helped raise 78,396 signatures (triggering a parliamentary debate) on a citizens initiative calling for amending the Animal Welfare Act to improve the lives of farmed pigs. The proposed changes include a ban on tail docking (illegal in the EU), ban on cages for pregnant and nursing sows, and better living space requirements, potentially affecting ~28 million animals each year.
- Meanwhile, in Bulgaria, our petition calling for a ban on cages for calves was discussed in the Parliamentary Committee on Civil Participation, with broad support from the politicians. It will now be discussed by the Agricultural Committee.
Opportunity for action
The European Commission is expected to respond to the Fur Free Europe European Citizen Initiative by the end of March. Despite the recent ban in Poland (EU’s largest fur producer), the Commission is considering regulations that will not meaningfully address the suffering of animals farmed for fur. Send an email to the Commissioners in support of an EU-wide ban on fur farming and import of fur products.
Thank you for posting this @PabloAMC 🔸. In addition to the video linked in the post, we just published @Jakub Stencel's blog article with more context about the consultation. We do encourage everyone to take some time to respond.
Yes, all four stages before the interview (application, video call, role-specific tasks, and reference check) are eliminatory. However, we don't have a fixed quota of candidates who advance to each subsequent stage. We advance everyone who meets our quality threshold criteria at each stage, rather than selecting only a predetermined number of top performers.
Anima International is looking for a Global Campaign Manager to help us figure out the most effective campaign strategies to mobilize and lead activists across the globe to create a change for animals, and a Global Growth Manager to increase Anima International’s effectiveness through its international growth.
Salary: The minimum salary (the salary base) varies depending on your place of residence. We aim for the salary base to be around the median of salaries in the country. For example, in the UK the base salary is GBP 36,954.48 gross/year and in Poland, it’s PLN 6385,24 PLN gross/month. Your salary may change due to your previous experience related to the position and activism (+3% for each year). In addition, the salary increases with your seniority in Anima International according to the following model:
+ 7% – for every year worked at Anima International during the first 5 years of work
+ 5% – for every year worked at Anima International during the next 5 years of work
+ 3% – for every year worked at Anima International during the next 5 years of work
+ 2% – for every year worked at Anima International during the next years of work
Location: fully remote, we will consider applicants from across the world, provided that they are willing to travel on average 6–8 times per year and be flexible in terms of time differences.
Apply here by 17 March 2024, 11:59 PM CET
Suggested skills and/or requirements:
Global Growth Manager: You will both establish and grow Anima International teams around the globe. You will help member groups of Anima International be more effective, training them in aspects of a broad skill set, from campaigning or conducting investigations to fundraising and management. So useful skills include:
- Campaigning experience
- Project management
- Understanding of key areas and campaigns of the animal advocacy movement
- Communication skills
- Basic digital skills
Nice-to-haves include experience of leading teams, basic fundraising and/or media experience, but do not hesitate to apply if you do not have this experience. We are open to hiring for senior and junior positions.
Global Campaign Manager: You’ll be coordinating our campaigns in coalitions, training our campaigners, and thinking critically about the campaigns we are doing – and not doing. So useful skills and traits include:
- High agency, endurance, and conscientiousness
- Ability to understand and weigh up nuanced issues
- Ability to transfer knowledge, teach, and motivate other activists
- High cognitive empathy, communicativeness, and alliance building
Nice-to-haves include experience covering a lot of aspects of organizational work, like marketing, fundraising, multimedia production, etc., and how they work together with campaigns.
More about these positions: We’re expecting to have a hard time hiring for this role – please apply if you’re not sure, and share the role with people who might be interested! All the details are available here for the Global Campaign Manager and here for the Global Growth Manager. The application deadline is 17 March, 11:59 CET, and the application form is here.
Anima International is hiring for two positions in its UK branch (Open Cages) as its 2nd and 3rd employees - links below. For more information on the recruitment and open positions read this blog post.
We are looking for:
- Campaign Manager to help us scale up our efforts to end the intensive farming of broiler chickens.
- Supporter Manager to help ensure Open Cages has the resources and supporter base needed to win campaigns.
Additionally, we are going to open 4 international positions (for our movement building and global multimedia teams) later this year. Those positions will be listed on our Jobs page.
In March our Polish team launched biznesbezklatek.pl (business without cages) which tracks the status of ~150 companies who have committed to phasing out caged eggs. Over the past decade in Poland, the percentage of hens outside of cages has tripled from 13% to 39%. The launch received media coverage including a live segment on national morning television.
Some recent individual wins: Aldi Poland is now confirmed 100% cage-free, following through on a commitment made in 2016. Polomarket, a mid-size retailer, phased out fresh caged eggs affecting roughly 64,000 hens per year. Finally, Eurocash, one of Poland's largest wholesale distributors, confirmed in writing that it will phase out all fresh cage eggs by 2026 and processed eggs from own-brand products by 2027.
In the UK, we attended a roundtable with government ministers following the release of the UK's animal welfare strategy. Ministers expressed confidence that the cage ban will be implemented and called recent Better Chicken Commitment withdrawals and the new Sustainable Chicken Forum (a business-led alternative) "disgraceful."
We launched the Anima International Fellowship— a paid 3-week in-person program starting in September for people who are highly aligned with the animal cause area and are considering a career in advocacy. Fellows will work alongside Anima staff on real organisational challenges, develop campaign and critical thinking skills, and finish by attending CARE Conference 2026. No experience or specific background required. Applications close May 17th.
Speaking of CARE, the deadline to apply as a speaker has been extended to the 14th of April, so if you’re reading this soon after posting you may still have time to apply. The conference takes place from the 17th to the 20th of September and we’re looking to hear about topics such as campaign strategy, cause prioritization, fundraising, movement building, AI and organizational culture.
Finally, in late March we published “The good, the bad, and the fair cop” by our own Toby Schiønning, one of the co-founders of Anima International. In the article he introduces the idea of a 'fair cop' approach – a middle ground (but not a compromise) between aggressive public campaigning and passive negotiations with companies. The core argument is that campaigners can be tough and confrontational while still being seen as reasonable by the companies they're pressuring, and that this combination is what actually moves corporations to act.