Animal exploitation persists because systems make it normal, distant, and profitable.
A reference project documenting how animal exploitation operates across industries, countries, and institutions.
This project is maintained with contributions from researchers and advocates around the world.
What this project documents.
Exploitation
How animals are used, commodified, and harmed across countries and industries – including the scale, processes, and outcomes that make exploitation economically viable.
Normalisation
How violence becomes ordinary through language, traditions, efficiency, and abstraction – reframed as production, growth, and acceptable practice.
Systemic Incentives
Who profits from animal exploitation, how costs are displaced, and how responsibility is diffused across supply chains and institutions.
How to use this project.
Learn by industry
Browse industry overviews to understand how animal exploitation is structured across sectors, including processes, scale, and economic context.
Understand the system
Examine the mechanisms that normalise exploitation – such as language, abstraction, and supply chains.
Use resources
Access clear, shareable facts, visuals, and publications designed for reference, education, and reuse – without persuasion or distortion.
Browse Resources →
Help Document Animal Exploitation in Your Country
Systemic Exploitation is building a structured global record of how animals are used across industries and countries.
We’re inviting contributors from around the world to help keep country records accurate and up to date by adding sources, developments, and local context.
Currently documenting 20+ countries and 30+ animal exploitation records.
Expected commitment: 1–2 hours per week.
What is normalised by systems rarely feels violent.
Until the structure is made visible.