By Henry Sandercock2021-04-07T13:38:00+01:00
The Business Benchmark on Farm Animal Welfare report scores the world’s top 150 food companies on their welfare practices, processes and performance based on publicly available information, along with a survey
Last week, the ninth edition of the Business Benchmark on Farm Animal Welfare revealed suppliers had overtaken retailers on progress.
It’s a report that scores the world’s top 150 food companies on their welfare practices, processes and performance based on publicly available information, along with a survey. It then ranks them across six tiers.
The latest report, covering the year to November 2020, showed food producers and manufacturers’ average score had risen from 33% to 38%, leapfrogging supermarkets, whose score went up 1% to 36%.
CiWF uses its
to judge the winner based on a company’s animal welfare standards for laying hens, broiler chickens, dairy cows and calves, sows and meat pigs and farmed fish.
In the UK at the moment, Pre orders for Vegan Christmas food up 700% at Waitrose alone; forgetting all the other supermarkets; and we also see that no less than 20% of the UK population are going to have a solely Vegan Christmas when it comes to food this year – amazing ! : 20% of Brits will serve an entirely vegan Christmas dinner this year (veganfoodandliving.com)
We at WAV hope we have played a very small part in this. Through the site we have bombarded you with news and videos featuring countless exposes of facilities causing untold animal suffering around the world. The figures above undoubtedly tell us that today, 2020, the world is changing and people are not going to continue to accept cruel animal practices that have gone on behind closed doors in the past. We have an old saying here i