In keeping with Flemish Minister of Animal Welfare Ben Weyts, the brand new animal welfare label “Higher for animals” (Beter voor dieren) will probably be discovered on red meat this 12 months and the poultry and livestock sectors will obtain the label in 2025 and 2026 respectively.
The label used to be evolved via the non-profit group Affiliation for the Promotion of the Welfare of Farm Animals and is a solution to Minister Weyts’ request to expand a device that objectives to fortify and track animal welfare within the meals chain in Flanders. To this finish, the non-profit group attracts up specs for farm animals farmers, transporters, and slaughterhouses and develops a device to observe compliance. Structural collaboration is being evolved with the field, unbiased scientists, and the group Beter Leven, which manages a an identical label within the Netherlands.
The label is awarded to merchandise that make further efforts for animal welfare past the prison necessities, as an example: averting needless delivery, providing further enrichment, or giving more room to animals.
The standard mark has 3 gradations, wherein restricted further efforts obtain one plus, greater efforts obtain two pluses, and 3 pluses when the manufacturer is going above and past the prison necessities. The specs and standards for precisely what each and every plus stands for are nonetheless within the strategy of building.
January 23, 2024/ Vilt/ Belgium.
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