Animal Welfare and Consumer Communications Cargill Advanced Animal Welfare

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Animal Welfare and Consumer CommunicationsCargil
l Advanced Animal Welfare

• Angie Siemens, Ph.D.
• Cargill, Inc.
• May 18, 2009

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Cargill Animal Well-being Initiatives

• Remote Video Auditing (Mar 08)
• 10 Beef Plants w/in next 12 months
• Cargill Pork Achieves 8 Critical Animal Welfare
  Assurance Goals (Apr 09)
• Pork Quality Assurance Plus
• All suppliers to Cargill are PQA Certified 10/08
• Cargill Pork Site Assessment Status
• Achieved 12/08
• Modified Group Sow Housing
• Goal of 50 of contract farms achieved

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• Transport Quality Assurance
• Required for delivery to Cargill Pork Plants
• PAACO Education and Training
• Cargill Pork PAACO trained 20 company employees
• Cargill has two foundation PAACO instructors
• Cargill Animal Welfare Training
• 82 hours annually
• Animal Rescue Program
• Cargill Pork has 5 units throughout the Midwest
• Developed with industry expert Jennifer Woods
• Internal Video Monitoring
• In place for 2 years

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