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Bien-être animal et transformation de nos systèmes de production : les Trophées de CIWF mettent à l’honneur les entreprises qui s’engagent

By June 15th 2022June 29th, 2022No Comments

Document type: Press release from CIWF France

Author: CIWF France

Preview: The CIWF Good Farm Animal Welfare Awards ceremony was held on Wednesday 15 June in London. The event was an opportunity to applaud 27 companies, including five from France, who have made particularly significant efforts to improve animal welfare and sustainability in their supply chains. These commitments will improve the lives of more than 138 million animals every year. They send out a strong message that major food companies have grasped the urgency involved in transforming our production systems.


The Better Chicken Commitment is being rolled out both on the farm and on shop shelves
This year, the eligibility criteria for the Good Chicken Awards were revised to honour companies that are not only signed up to the Better Chicken Commitment (BCC), but have also demonstrated significant progress in rolling out the BCC on the farm. Carrefour France is the very first French company to receive a Good Chicken Award in this new, more demanding version of the Trophy, in recognition of its leadership in the transition to ECC. [...]


The prestigious Cage-Free Award recognises companies that are committed to ending cage-free farming for all species in their supply chain (laying hens, rabbits, sows, quails, ducks). The award was presented to Domino's Pizza Enterprises, the master franchisee of the Domino's Pizza brand in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium and Luxembourg. Domino's Pizza has recently made ambitious commitments across its European pork supply chain through the 'Domino's Pork Commitment'. This includes a ban on all sow cages by 2026. This strong commitment to the pork sector, combined with their previous commitment to source exclusively free range eggs by 2025, has earned them the Cage Free Award this year.


The commitment by Spain's leading egg producer Grupo Huevos Guillén to end caged and combined farming systems was rewarded with a Good Egg Award. And in Italy, La marca del consumatore, the Italian version of C'est Qui Le Patron? received an Egg Award. Good Egg Awards were also awarded in regions of the world where the issue of cage-farming had not previously been addressed: in Japan, with the retailer Shunrakuzen, in China, with the coffee shop chain ZOO COFFEE, INC and with the producer PianGuan Yong AO, and Carrefour in Brazil, the first retailer there to receive a Good Egg Commendation for its commitment to cage-free own-brand products.


Rabbit Innovation Awards went to Wisium in France and to BreFood in Germany, for the development of new ground-based rabbit rearing systems, with permanent access to winter gardens providing the animals with access to fresh air and natural light.


Retailers that innovate and communicate
Based on its results in CIWF's bi-annual Retail Survey, the UK group Waitrose and Partners won the overall Best Retailer Award for the fourth time in a row. Waitrose also won this year's Best Retailer Innovation Award for the development of an animal welfare monitoring app that uses Qualitative Behaviour Assessment, a scientific method of measuring the emotional wellbeing of animals. The app will be made available to all interested companies shortly.


Remarkable progress for fish too
Last, fish have not been forgotten among the Animal Welfare Awards 2022. MOWI ASA, the world's leading salmon producer, received a Special Recognition Award for implementing an ambitious animal welfare policy for Atlantic salmon (e.g. reduced stocking densities, environmental enrichment, no routine mutilations, more respectful slaughtering methods). This global commitment will benefit more than 122 million salmon each year, and provides a true example for other aquaculture producers.


Positive signs for the transition to more sustainable systems
When CIWF launched its agri-food programme more than 12 years ago, its main mission was to improve animal welfare standards in food companies' supply chains. Currently, in the context of the climate and health crisis and the loss of biodiversity, the programme is evolving, adopting a more systemic approach, focusing on the transformation of our farming and food systems through changes to farming practices, reducing our dependence on animal products and moving towards regenerative and planet-friendly agriculture.


The corporate Sustainable Food and Farming Award went for the first time to a French company -  Laiteries H. Triballat-Rians -  in recognition of the group's commitments made through their "Laiterie Familiale Engagée" programme. Laiteries H. Triballat-Rians provides a good example of how a dairy group can help its farmers to improve animal welfare, protect the environment and implement more sustainable agricultural practices, with the help of NGO partners (CIWF, WWF, LPO): by encouraging 100% pasture access, increasing the longevity of cows and goats, phasing out deforesting soy in feed and planting hedges. The H. Triballat-Rians Dairy project offers producers the tools to measure their carbon footprint and guides them through a series of technical choices to help store carbon and protect biodiversity, along with training workshops in agroforestry/agroecology and animal welfare.

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From the CIWF France website