Tag: Compassion in World Farming

New Report Shows Food Companies Struggle To Match Ambition With Action On Farm Animal Welfare

Stuart Mitchell

The latest Business Benchmark on Farm Animal Welfare (BBFAW), released recently, shows strong levels of commitment to higher farm animal welfare standards are in place across the world’s largest food companies, but the pace of implementation remains slow across global supply chains. BBFAW is the world’s leading annual assessment of the food industry’s farm animal welfare policies, practices and performance, assessing 149 global food companies. The programme is supported by partners Compassion in World Farming and FOUR PAWS. The food companies with the highest overall ranking this year (achieving ‘Tier…

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ChickenTrack 2025 Shows Steady Progress on Broiler Welfare—But Calls for Continued Industry Commitment

Stuart Mitchell

Compassion in World Farming has today (12 March) published its latest European ChickenTrack report, evaluating how leading food companies are progressing toward meeting the higher welfare criteria of the Better Chicken Commitment (BCC). The BCC is a comprehensive, science-based framework designed to improve the lives of millions of chickens raised for meat each year.  Across Europe, over 410 companies have signed up to the BCC.  ChickenTrack 2025 evaluates the progress of the 107 most influential signatories—with the potential to improve the lives of more than 794 million chickens each year—by…

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Europe has spoken – it’s time to End the Cage Age

Stuart Mitchell

The European Commission’s own consultation reveals overwhelming public support to end the use of cages – NGO calls for legislation without delay More than 190,000 people responded to the European Commission’s public consultation on modernising animal welfare laws last year, and the results show the vast majority of respondents want to phase out cages from animal farming. The key findings include: 99% of respondents, including 54% of businesses, think phasing out cages for laying hens is important or very important 99% of respondents, including 46% of businesses, think phasing out…

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Statement From Compassion in World Farming in Response to Unilever’s Abandonment of their Global Cage-Free Commitment

Stuart Mitchell

It is deeply disappointing to see Unilever – one of the world’s largest food manufacturers – not only abandon the global cage‑free egg commitment it made in 2018 but also withdraw from the higher‑welfare broiler chicken requirements of the Better Chicken Commitment. Cage‑Free Egg CommitmentAfter reaching 68% global cage‑free implementation, this reversal leaves hens confined in cages, unable to express even their most basic natural behaviours. Unilever’s pledge was global in scope – not limited to Europe and North America, where it has since gone 100% cage‑free. Consumers around the…

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Compassion in World Farming Launches First Sea Bass and Sea Bream Welfare Scorecard

Stuart Mitchell

Compassion in World Farming has launched its first Sea Bass and Sea Bream Welfare Scorecard, providing an assessment of the public welfare policies and reporting of 13 major producers. The scorecard evaluates producers against 11 key welfare criteria, establishing a much-needed baseline for a sector where public commitments on fish welfare have historically been limited, or optional, but are now increasingly expected and required. Together the assessed companies span six countries and account for around 36% of global sea bass and sea bream production.  This new benchmark builds on the…

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