Animal Welfare News
Sustainable Solutions Group consultants produce blog posts, E-newsletters, white papers and webinars on animal welfare standards, sustainable sourcing solutions, humane handling, and antibiotic use in agriculture. We are available and pleased to participate in interviews regarding these animal welfare topics. Please, direct media inquiries here.
Sustainable Solutions Newsletters
Interviews with Sustainable Solutions Group
White Papers / Articles
Webinars & Podcasts – Contact us for slides & recordings
Sustainable Solutions Group In the News
Sustainable Solutions Newsletters
- Brazilian judge holds beef slaughterhouses accountable for Amazon 🌳 deforestation, November 2024.
- Cage-free Eggs 🥚 & Eggs without Chick Culling 🐤 Scaling, October 2024.
- Proposed US legislation addresses public health risk of pigs 🐖 that can’t walk, September 2024.
- USDA’s New Rules: Stricter Documentation for Animal Protein 🥩🍗 Labels, September 2024.
- Judge 🧑⚖️ upholds Massachusetts’ Question 3 animal welfare law, July 2024.
- Food company fully complies with BCC 🐓 & Prop 12 update 🐖, July 2024.
- Raising the Bar on Cage-free Eggs 🥚 & Male Chick 🐤 Innovations, June 2024.
- Trial: Two avian flu 🐔 vaccines effective, June 2024.
- Prop 12 Hog Reporting 🐖, June 2024.
- Hot Animal Welfare 🐖 🐓🐄 Issues, January 2024.
- USDA Strengthening 🐓🐄 Animal Welfare & US Origin Claims, December 2023.
- Cultivated Meat in the US, December 2023.
- *Video Link Fixed* USDA Updates it’s Organic Animal Welfare Requirements, November 2023.
- Investment Advisers & NGOs Publish Animal Welfare Rankings, November 2023.
- USDA Organic Program Updates its 🐖🐓Animal Welfare Requirements, November 2023.
- Solutions to culling male chicks in Egg 🥚 production, June 2023.
- Prop 12 🐖 Implementation Webinars available for👂listening, June 2023.
- Better Chicken 🐓 Commitment (BCC) progress in the U.S. and Europe, June 2023.
- California Dept of Food & Ag (CDFA) on 🐖 US Supreme Court decision, June 2023.
- Improvements to poultry 🐓 welfare in Australia, January 2023.
- Sourcing policies to reduce Superbug infections from Antibiotic overuse, January 2023.
- Increasing cow comfort 🐄 returns $40K USD per year for this Aussie farmer, January 2023.
- Sow 🐖 Group Housing System detects pregnancy quickly, December 2022.
- Prop 12 🐖 Delay, Animal Welfare Scorecards & Cage-free 🥚 Updates, December 2022.
- 🐓 Announcements! CAS in 2024 & 2023 Male Chicks Raised for Meat, November 2022.
- Animal Welfare 🐖🐓🐄 Budgeting, plus other Breaking News, September 2022.
- Important Budgeting for Animal Welfare, Do You Have What You Need?, August 2022.
- Prop 12 Pork Update & California Cage-free Egg Market Settles, July 2022.
- Combining Dairy Sustainability Goals with Animal Welfare, July 2022.
- A Commercial Sow 🐖 Farm Removes Stalls & Converts, June 2022.
- Fast Tracking Cage-free 🥚 Sourcing & Prop 12 Battle, June 2022.
- What Meat Shoppers Want…& Cow Lameness/Antibiotic Use, May 2022.
- Egg 🥚 Price Trends After Prop 12 & Arizona Law, April 2022.
- Global Events Impacting Ukraine’s Dairy & Poultry Farms, April 2022.
- International 🌎 Innovative Farming Practices, March 2022.
- ⅓ of U.S. Food Wasted & Supermarkets Drop Brazilian Beef, March 2022.
- Restaurants Pressured on Cage-free Egg Sourcing 🍳, February 2022.
- UPDATE: Prop 12 Pork Enforcement after Final Rules in Effect, January 2022.
- California Prop 12 & Massachusetts Q3 Updates, January 2022.
- Federal fines & indictments hit major processors, December 2021.
- GAP announces Broiler Chicken 🐓 Breeds, December 2021.
- Reporting on Animal Welfare in your ESG Report, October 2021.
- Budgeting to Have a Structured Approach to Animal Welfare, Sept 2021.
- A Data-Driven Approach to Supplier Animal Welfare & Nevada Cage-free, June 2021.
- Is Your Brand Being Asked for Animal Welfare Progress, April 2021.
- Webinar: “What’s an 🐖🐄🐓 Supply Chain Assessment, Feb 2021.
- Chicken Slaughter Line Speeds Linked to COVID-19 Spread, Feb 2021.
- Breaking News on Prop 12 & Veterinary Petition, January 2021.
- US Circuit Court, “Animal welfare & human welfare … integrally connected”, Dec 2020.
- Consumers’ Sustainability Priorities Shift → Animal Welfare In Top 3, Nov 2020.
- Federal Court Upholds California Prop 12 Law, Again, Oct 2020.
- Feature: Results of the Broiler Chicken Study Are In, Oct 2020.
- Budgeting for Animal Welfare and Lessons from COVID-19, Sept 2020.
- 81% of Consumers Say Transparency Is Important, Aug 2020.
- Fast-Growing Chickens & Cage-Free Egg Pledges, August 2020.
- Antibiotics in Beef; ‘Organic’ Needs Animal Welfare, July 2020.
- Plea to USDA: “Protect the market from shockwaves…”, July 2020.
- On Animal Welfare, Sustainability & a Changing Food System, June 2020.
- Signs Point to Increasing Demands for Welfare Improvements, June 2020.
- Dr. Temple Grandin on Pandemic-Pork can be a Source of Vitamin D, May 2020.
- Pandemic Highlights Animal Welfare Opportunities for Commodity Producers, May 2020.
- Lack of Regional Meat Processors Causes Commodity Bottleneck, May 2020.
- Judge Shares Concerns on Pig Slaughter Line Speeds, April 2020.
- Mounting Pressures on Farms & Animal Welfare Operations, April 2020.
- Despite pandemic, Shoppers Still Seek Preferred Brands, April 2020.
- International animal welfare models set precedents, March 2020.
- Regulatory Decisions Favor Increasing Animal Welfare Standards, Feb 2020.
- Animal Welfare Concerns Take Center Stage in 2020, Jan 2020.
Interviews with Sustainable Solutions Group
- Progressive Grocer, Aiming High with Certifications (see pg. 89), May 2021
- Voyage Chicago, Meet Janice Neitzel of Sustainable Solutions Group Inc., Nov 2017
- TraceGains, A Framework for Animal Welfare Certification programs, Nov 2017
White Papers / Articles
- Sustainatopia Speaker, ‘Innovations in Food & Food Systems’ Panel, May 2020
- Store Brands Magazine, The Business Case for Responsible Sourcing, April 2016
- Journal of Brand Strategy, Sustainable Sourcing to Innovate a Private Brand, Summer 2015
- Sustainable Solutions Group, Sustainable Sourcing to Innovate Your Brand, Nov 2015
Webinars & Podcasts – Contact us for slides & recordings
- Got Millennials? How to Attract Them to Your Brand with Sustainable Sourcing, June 2016
- BreakThru Radio: Measuring Animal Welfare & Food Waste Reduction, Dec 2015
- Sustainable Sourcing to Innovate Your Brand – Store Brands Conference, Feb 2015
- Benchmarking Supply Chain Animal Welfare on Dairy Farms, Oct 2014
- Gate-to-Plate Tracking by Sustainable Solutions Group, July 2014
- Benchmarking Supply Chain Animal Welfare- A Data-Driven Approach, May 2013
- Retail & Restaurant Panel, US-EU Market Driven Animal Welfare Conference, March 2012
Sustainable Solutions Group In the News
- TraceGains, Sustainable Sourcing and Millennials: Why You Should Care, July 2016
- TriplePundit.com Crawl-Walk-Run: Scaling Up Sustainability Programs, Winter 2016 (with links to 4-part series)
- TriplePundit.com Food Waste Numbers Improve Slowly, Nov 2015
- TriplePundit.com Back to Basics: When Ben & Jerry’s Dropped rBGH, April 2015
- TriplePundit.com Unilever Commitment for Male Chicks, September 2014
- American Grassfed Assn Farm Branding on Menus and Packaging Important, Summer 2014
- TriplePundit.com Demand for Humane Food is Strong, Study Finds, April 2014
- TriplePundit.com Chick-fil-A Commits to Serving Antibiotic-Free Chicken, February 2014
- American Grassfed Assn Millennials Like Grassfed, Summer 2013
- American Grassfed Assn Consumer Demand for Grassfed to Continue Strong in 2012, Winter 2012
- TriplePundit.com Consumer Demand for Grassfed will Rise in 2012, February 2012