We believe food companies in every sector have an important role in building a better food system—and the potential to lead the way.

Compassion USA’s Food Business team works closely with food companies to foster a transition to a more compassionate, fair, and sustainable food and farming system. We advise companies at every stage of their journey and focus on solutions—providing scientific and technical guidance, market expertise, and collaborative problem-solving as companies set policies and implement change across their supply chains.

We also firmly believe in transparent progress reporting. Not only is regular public reporting a critical tool that ensures companies continue to make progress against their commitments, but it also signals to farmers and investors that these company commitments are valuable and that they should continue to invest in more sustainable and higher welfare infrastructure.

Compassion in World Farming developed first-of-their-kind tools, EggTrack, ChickenTrack, and PigTrack to monitor company's progress against their commitments and ensure transparency in the marketplace for consumers. Both annual reports are designed to help food companies meet the goals outlined in their higher-welfare animal sourcing commitments on or ahead of schedule.

When motivated, leading companies can make fast and decisive improvements that can benefit millions of animals, each and every year.

We work with leading food companies to encourage them to commit to higher welfare production, practices, and sourcing policies throughout their supply.

OVER 2.5 BILLION!
Animals set to benefit each year from these commitments​

The pillars of our Food Business program are:

• Working with the entire food industry, including producers (from individual farmers to integrated companies), manufacturers, retailers, food service, and restaurants
• Supporting the development and implementation of corporate animal welfare policies and species-specific commitments, including fostering B2B dialogue in our U.S. Working Group for Broiler Welfare.
• Promoting transparency via our annual EggTrack, ChickenTrack and PigTrack reports to facilitate smooth market transitions for producers and purchasers alike
• Providing technical guidance from animal welfare scientists and industry specialists and a free library of science-based technical resources on key farm animal welfare issues specific to the United States and more broadly for our global work
• Developing corporate strategies to achieve a balanced and sustainable protein portfolio, including measurement, target-setting, and piloting
• Celebrating company progress in the media and via CIWF's Good Farm Animal Welfare Awards^®

Have questions? Contact our Food Business team.