In April 2020, after more than a decade of service, Farm Forward resigned, in protest, from the board of the nation’s largest legitimate animal welfare certification, Global Animal Partnership or GAP.
Commendable efforts by Perdue Farms to progress poultry farming on an industrial scale. See how they are committing to animal welfare here.
Leadership Circle raises the bar and helps you meet it by developing the network of higher-welfare farms, and driving consumer demand to them.
One hog farmer, Paul Willis, chose farming over industrialized production, and has shown us what high-welfare pig farming looks like.
The report, titled “Animal Welfare in the National Organic Program: The USDA Must Act Quickly to Ensure Consumer Trust,” documents how farmers, retailers, and consumer advocates overwhelmingly support—and expect—stronger welfare standards for animals raised under the organic program.
This lack of transparency and meaning in labels is one of the main reasons we created BuyingPoultry—to help consumers cut through confusing labels and find healthier, higher-welfare poultry and egg options.
The University of California (UC) system announced that eight of its ten schools will now purchase eggs from certified higher welfare farms.
In response to the Trump Administration’s second delay of the Organic Livestock and Poultry Practices rule, Farm Forward joins The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) and the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) to entreat the USDA to implement the rules without further delay
Unethical slaughter methods continue to be commonly used in the production of kosher meat sold in the United States and Israel, but resistance to these outdated practices is mounting due to public pressure.
Premium care comes with a premium price. But how can you know which package is best? Learn more about the system here.
One third-generation poultry farmer is raising the floor on American commercial poultry farming. Learn more on how here.
Animal products from slaughterhouses with painful methods and sick animals still somehow manages to keep Kosher? Learn more here.