Three animal charities – The Humane League, The Humane Society, and Compassion in World Farming – are attempting to impact and sway chicken farming practices in the US. Against a backdrop of nearly 9 billion chickens consumed annually, their efforts are not insignificant.
Impact
Among the results – a November announcement by Aramark to pursue animal welfare and supply chain improvements, including reducing, chief among them, abnormal animal weight gain, confinement, cage density and painful procedures.
Panera, a restaurant chain that serves more than 10 million people a week and raises up to 17 million chickens for their meat, also announced similar commitments in December, according to CIWF.
