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Albert Schweitzer Foundation
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The Albert Schweitzer Foundation (ASF) is an animal protection organization focused on reducing the suffering of farmed animals. Its activities include campaigns to change corporate animal welfare policies and spreading information about vegetarianism and veganism. Organizational History ASF was founded by attorney Wolfgang Schindler in 2000. It is named for French-German theologian Albert Schweitzer, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his "Reverence for Life" philosophy and practiced vegetarianism. The Foundation's website states that its mission is to relieve as much suffering as possible, and therefore their focus is on helping farmed animals, 60 billion of which are raised and killed each year. Campaigns ASF's largest program in terms of budget is its corporate outreach program. In 2013 corporate outreach led to 33 corporate policy changes: 26 companies switched to cage-free eggs, 1 stopped selling foie gras, 2 removed eggs from meat alternatives, and 4 added vegan menu items. In addition, four universities switched to cage-free eggs. In January 2016, along with American animal protection group The Humane League, ASF secured a cage-free pledge from Mondelez International. According to their website, ASF played a major role in convincing all supermarket chains and the most important cash-and-carry wholesalers in Germany to stop selling eggs from chickens raised in battery cages. ACE designates as Standout Charities those organizations which they do not feel are as strong as their Top Charities, but which excel in at least one way and are exceptionally strong compared to animal charities in general. In their November 2016 review of ASF, ACE lists the organization's strengths as understanding the value of goal-setting and measuring impact; working with corporations to affect large numbers of animals; and collaborating with other organizations. Their weaknesses include, according to ACE, a limited reach, as most of their work is in Germany.<ref name=ace-review /> See Also
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