Dairy Herd Alert: Animal Compassion Foundation 1/25/05

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Whole Foods launches Animal Compassion Foundation

By Dairy Herd news source (Tuesday, January 25, 2005)

 

Last month, Whole Foods Markets, a chain of 157 natural-foods stores,

established the Animal Compassion Foundation to raise the bar on its

already strict animal-welfare standards for suppliers. Now, Whole Foods

officials have appointed Anne Malleau as the foundation's executive

director. On Jan. 25, the company will dedicate a portion of its sales

to fund the foundation.

 

The foundation's goal is to help meat producers achieve a higher

standard of animal-welfare excellence while still maintaining economic

viability. The foundation says that it will:

 

* Search the planet for innovative ranchers and farmers who raise

animals with the animal's well being as the goal rather than

producer's productivity.

* Create a worldwide network comprised of animal-compassionate

ranchers and farmers to share knowledge to learn and improve together.

* Collect and compile the global knowledge of animal-compassionate

methods into an online library to help others convert to more

animal-compassionate methods.

* Provide research money to animal scientists at universities

worldwide to address challenges producers face in trying to raise

animals more compassionately.

 

For more information, follow this link <http://www.wholefoods.com/>.