This is an update to the blog that we posted earlier this week on COVID-19’s impact on GAP certification activities. In an effort to help with increased demands on the…
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The COVID-19 pandemic is proving to be a borderless challenge to our health, economies and livelihoods. While we’ve faced challenges from disease in recent years (e.g. avian influenza, PEDv, H1N1,…
Okay, okay, so you can’t actually “ace” an animal welfare audit, but it’s always nice when your certifier sends you an audit report saying that you’re in compliance with every...
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Happy New Year! We find the first week of January a really magical time – a time to reflect on the previous year, and all the exciting plans for the New…
G.A.P. is excited to welcome two new members to its Board of Directors: Cheryl Queen and David Pitman. David Pitman is a lifelong poultry farmer, representing his family’s 60-year poultry…
GAP has provided a grant-in-aid of research to the University of Guelph, Ontario for a two-year research project. This is an important step toward our goal of replacing 100% of chicken breeds that result in poor welfare outcomes by 2024 with breeds meeting specified welfare outcomes within our 5-Step® Rating Program.
America’s most comprehensive farm animal welfare program focuses on cage-free standard.
Atkins Ranch in Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand, which supplies grass-fed lamb to Whole Foods Market stores across the US and Canada, has been certified to Global Animal Partnership’s (GAP) 5-Step® Animal Welfare Rating program for meat sheep, becoming the first Step 4: Pasture Centered sheep program in the world.
Today, Compass Group USA and the animal welfare certification program Global Animal Partnership (GAP) announced a historic and unique partnership to transform the welfare of chickens within Compass’ supply chain.
One of the things we do as an organization around this time of the year while we’re setting our plans for the coming year, is to reflect on the year that’s coming to an end. Wow, 2016 was a big year for GAP!
