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Woolworths reviewing use of farm animal welfare benchmark

MAJOR Australian supermarket Woolworths is reviewing its use of the Business Benchmark for Farm Animal Welfare to measure its performance against other retailers.

Sheep Central on Thursday reported on a call for Australia’s major supermarkets to dissociate themselves from the benchmark due to its proposal to rank food companies on commitments to reduce their reliance on animal protein.

The benchmark’s animal rights centric partners Compassion in World Farming and FourPaws International have proposed the inclusion of new questions in the BBFAW assessment criteria that would enable the…

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