The U.S. meat sector released this week its first-ever progress report that sets baselines for measuring progress toward ambitious targets in environmental sustainability, animal care, food safety, worker safety, and food security. With 100% of the Meat Institute’s large U.S. members (more than 2,000 employees) submitting data, the report covers an estimated 90% of meat sold in the United States.
Just in time for the United Nations Climate Summit next week in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, the report reveals that about 81% of facilities reporting data are covered by Meat Institute members’…