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HSUS responds to Tyson animal welfare program
Story Date: 10/15/2012
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Source: Dani Friedland, MEATINGPLACE, 10/15/12
The Humane Society of the United States released a statement after Tyson Foods announced Friday that it would launch an animal welfare audit program.
In the statement, HSUS notes that it filed a Securities and Exchange Commission complaint last May regarding Tyson’s animal welfare claims and said Tyson’s announcement did not mention what HSUS termed “the most pressing animal welfare issue of the day”—namely, gestation stalls.
“Audits are valuable if farm inspectors ask the right set of questions,” HSUS President and CEO Wayne Pacelle said in the statement. “We’ve not suggested that Tyson contractors are denying food to animals or intentionally abusing them, but that they are denying them enough space to even turn around. Tyson’s announcement would mean more if the company was getting its pork from farmers who do not confine sows in crates that immobilize the animals.”
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