THERE can be little doubt among beef producers across the country that there is increasing scrutiny from outside the industry on the methods used to breed, manage and care for livestock. One of the more commonly used terms around that is ‘social license.’
As a term, social license was originally applied to development associated with extractive industries, such as mining. It refers to a community’s tacit consent for a business, project, or industry to operate.
In many ways social license is seen as an extension of the concept of corporate responsibility, and therefore is…
