An effort is being made in Colorado to get a question on the ballot that would ultimately drive animal agriculture out of the state.

While there is a wide variety of auditing programs that assure that poultry hatcheries are following good welfare practices, the National Chicken Council (NCC)-based animal welfare audit guidelines in most cases will put hatchery managers in a “very good position for any audit that a customer our outside firm might do,” said Dallas Wynn, senior manager, animal welfare, Tyson Foods.

New research at the Tyson Foods’ Broiler Welfare Research Farm leverages animal preference to choose the best environmental enrichments for broiler chickens. 

Food producers and manufacturers now dominate the Business Benchmark on Animal Welfare with broiler and egg companies performing well.