Can you spot the difference? Animal welfare labels and claims seem to be everywhere on meat products these days. With so many different labels, it can be hard to keep…
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– Krysta Morrissey Ph.D. G.A.P. Senior Farm Animal Welfare Specialist Why Isn’t It Simple? Global Animal Partnership sets standards that support continuous improvement of farm animal welfare. Those standards clearly define “farm…
Congratulations to Miller Poultry, Country Natural Beef, Hearst Ranch Beef, and Diestel Family Ranch The team at Global Animal Partnership are thrilled to congratulate our partners at Miller Poultry, Country…
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…
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.
In March 2016, Global Animal Partnership (GAP) announced our intention to replace 100% of fast-growing chicken breeds with slower-growing breeds for all levels of our 5- Step® Rating Program by 2024.
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.
