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Chilean restaurant company Gastronomía y Negocios commits to improve hen and pig welfare in supply chain
Gastronomía y Negocios, a Chilean restaurant company that operates the popular chains Doggis, Juan Maestro, and Mamut, has committed to sourcing exclusively cage-free eggs and crate-free pork in its entire supply chain in Chile by 2025. The company operates over 250 locations in the country. In
Singaporean and Vietnamese farmers study cage-free egg production in Europe
Leading egg producers from Singapore and the Tien Giang Province of Vietnam travelled to Europe to learn about cage-free egg production at Heal Eggs Ltd, an innovative egg farm in Shrewsbury, United Kingdom. Ma Chin Chew of N&N Agriculture in Singapore joined Le Van Hoa, who has more than 300,000
Hundreds of #BeCrueltyFree bunnies take to the streets of Santiago in support of cosmetic animal testing ban
SANTIAGO—Santiago residents on their way to work this week were greeted by several hundred stand-up paper bunnies urging them to support a proposed law to ban animal testing for cosmetics in Chile as well as the trade in cosmetics product and ingredients newly tested on animals. The action was
Brazilian pasta company Pastifício Primo commits to sourcing exclusively cage-free eggs
SÃO PAULO—Pastifício Primo, an important pasta company in Brazil, has announced it has joined with HSI to switch to a 100% cage-free egg supply chain by 2022. In Brazil, egg-laying hens are typically confined for their whole lives in wire battery cages, so small that the hens cannot even fully
Indonesia's cruel and dangerous dog meat trade exposed in investigations by newly-launched Dog Meat-Free Indonesia Coalition
Shocking nationwide investigations by animal campaigners from the newly-launched “Dog Meat-Free Indonesia” coalition expose the horrifying brutality and suffering endured by up to a million dogs every year for Indonesia's dog meat trade. In the coalition’s campaign video launched today, dogs
Melting Cook becomes first Chilean restaurant group to join global cage-free egg movement
The restaurant group Melting Cook announced it is joining with Humane Society International to improve animal welfare in its supply chain, switching to a 100 percent cage-free egg supply chain, becoming the first Chilean company to join this global movement. Melting Cook will use exclusively cage
HSI welcomes Nestlé announcement setting dates for its complete transition to cage-free eggs in Latin America, Oceania, Middle East and Africa
Following its 2014 commitment to switch to a 100 percent cage-free global egg supply chain, Nestlé, the world’s largest food company, announced that it will complete this transition in Europe by 2020 and in Latin America, Oceania, Middle East, and Africa by 2025. The company had previously committed
Michael Kors Holdings announces fur-free policy
LONDON—Michael Kors Holdings Limited (NYSE: KORS)—a global fashion luxury group — will end its use of fur, with production phased out by the end of 2018. The policy will apply companywide, including for Michael Kors’ Jimmy Choo brand. With this announcement, Michael Kors and Jimmy Choo have joined
State of Rio de Janeiro becomes first in Americas to enact comprehensive ban on animal testing for cosmetics
Humane Society International is applauding the Rio de Janeiro State Assembly for adopting the first law in Brazil and the Americas banning both the testing of cosmetics products and ingredients on animals as well as the sales of cosmetics newly tested on animals. The bill includes heavy fines and a
Kraft Heinz commits to a 100 percent cage-free egg supply chain globally
Kraft Heinz, one of the world’s largest food makers, has committed to sourcing exclusively cage-free eggs in its entire global supply chain by 2025. This follows on previous commitments to eliminate the use of cages from their regional egg supply chains in North America, Europe and Latin America
More than 170 dogs rescued from death row on South Korean dog meat farm just 2hrs drive from Pyeongchang Olympic stadium
MEDIA DOWNLOADS Animal rescuers from Humane Society International have saved more than 170 dogs languishing on a squalid dog meat farm in South Korea, a mere two hour drive from where the country will host the 2018 Winter Olympics in 10 weeks’ time. The charity is flying the dogs to shelters in the
J. Macêdo commits to sourcing exclusively cage-free eggs
J. Macêdo, a Brazilian company that owns the pasta brands Petybon and Brandini, has committed to sourcing exclusively cage-free eggs throughout its supply chain by 2025. This policy follows discussions with Humane Society International and other animal protection organizations. The company's
VIDEO: Sickening animal cruelty at Indonesia’s “extreme” markets where dogs and cats are bludgeoned and blow-torched alive
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5byE8jVOeGQ[/embed] LONDON—The Indonesian government is being urged to shut down the country’s brutally cruel live animal markets, where thousands of dogs and cats a week are bludgeoned in public, blow-torched whilst still alive, and butchered for eating. Local
Humane Society International and The HSUS applaud removal of obsolete vaccine animal test requirements
The European Pharmacopoeia Commission and the United States Department of Agriculture have recently revised their requirements for the safety assessment of vaccines to remove or waive two controversial and scientifically unnecessary animal tests, a move that could spare scores of animals going
Texas hunter seeks to import trophy of critically endangered black rhino
Only two months after global controversy erupted over US imports of elephant and lion hunting trophies, a wealthy Texan has applied for a permit to import a trophy from his killing of a critically endangered black rhino from Namibia. The Humane Society of the United States and Humane Society
China closes its domestic ivory market
On Dec. 31, 2017, all registered ivory carving facilities, ivory wholesalers and ivory retailers in China closed, thus ending the world’s largest domestic ivory market and fulfilling a joint commitment made in 2015 between China’s President Xi Jinping and then U.S. President Barack Obama. Iris Ho
Grupo Takami to source exclusively cage-free eggs
BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA—Under its new animal welfare and sustainability initiative, Colombian restaurant group Grupo Takami announced that by 2022, its supply chain will use 100 percent cage-free eggs. This includes shell eggs, processed eggs and products that contain eggs. Grupo Takami—which operates
Humane Society International and Japanese Coalition for Animal Welfare hold a citizen forum to mobilize the public for the revision of the Japanese Animal Welfare Act
We're working to impact the revision of the Animal Welfare Act. istock Tokyo—Japanese Coalition for Animal Welfare and Humane Society International held a Citizen Forum on Monday, February 12th, to build momentum toward the forthcoming revision of the Act on Welfare and Management of Animals. The
SCI will no longer promote canned lion hunting at events
Insert a short caption here. Photographer/NOAA HSI and Blood Lions welcome the announcement by Safari Club International that it will no longer allow the promotion of canned lion hunting at its events. This move by the largest US-based trophy hunting organisation to denounce the shooting of captive
Crepes & Waffles joins global cage-free egg movement
BOGOTA, Colombia—Crepes & Waffles, Colombia’s leading restaurant company, with approximately 165 locations, announced its commitment to source exclusively cage-free eggs (shell and processed) by 2025. This policy follows discussions with Humane Society International and other animal protection