Practicing, maintaining and promoting humane handling and animal welfare not only ensures best practices, but also reassures consumers that their purchases align with their priorities.
With the implementation of legislation like Prop 12 and Massachusetts Question 3, every worker in the meat supply chain must be properly informed on all best practices for humane handling of livestock and poultry.
The animal confinement laws (Proposition 12, Calif. /Question 3, Mass.) impacting fresh pork sold in California and Massachusetts are entering the enforcement phase.
Brazil has been free of avian influenza in commercial poultry farms since 2000 and has specific norms for biosecurity, prevention and awareness of important diseases in poultry.