North America’s third largest grocery retailer, Safeway, has taken a series of major steps to improve animal welfare in its food purchasing decisions of pork and poultry.
The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) applauded Safeway’s announcement. It has been in dialogue with the retailer since last November about improving its farm animal welfare standards.
The following new policies are to be introduced:
Pork
Eggs
Paul Shapiro, senior director of the HSUS’ factory farming campaign, commented that “Safeway’s new policies represent important progress on basic animal welfare issues and will positively affect many thousands of animals.”
Related websites:
• Safeway
• The Humane Society of the United States
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