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Certified Humane® welcomes BRF Brasil’s Sadia brand chicken to the program

(HERNDON, VA, USA) August 22, 2016 – Humane Farm Animal Care (HFAC) has accepted BRF Brasil – one of the largest food companies in the world – into the Certified Humane® program for 33 of their chicken farms in Goiás (Midwest Brazil). BRF Brasil produces chicken products sold under the Sadia brand, the leading chicken brand …

Brazil… not only hosting the Olympics, but improving the welfare of farm animals

Like many of you, I have been watching the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil every night. I love watching our athletes and enjoy the stories about the host nation and its people. This worldwide event brings nations and people together to engage peacefully towards common goals. I feel a special connection with these particular …

Certified Humane® training programs help improve farm animal welfare in South America

When you talk to Adroaldo Zanella, DVM, a member of Humane Farm Animal Care’s (HFAC) Scientific Committee since 2005 and Professor of Animal Welfare at the University of São Paulo Veterinary School of Medicine in Pirassununga, São Paulo, Brazil, about farm animal welfare, he can hardly contain his excitement at the progress his country has …

Adele Douglass receives RSPCA Overseas Award for Outstanding Animal Welfare

Adele Douglass, the executive director of Humane Farm Animal Care, was awarded the RSPCA Overseas Award this past weekend for outstanding achievement in animal welfare outside the UK and Europe. For more than 100 years, the RSPCA Honours have been given to people and organizations who have helped end cruelty, protect animals from abuse, and …

Ecoterra becomes first farm in Chile to become Certified Humane®

(HERNDON, VA, USA) May 19, 2016 –  Humane Farm Animal Care (HFAC), the leading international nonprofit certification program improving the lives of millions of farm animals in food production, announced this week that Ecoterra in Santiago, Chile, has become the first farm in Chile to achieve Certified Humane® certification. Ecoterra free-range eggs launched in 2011 …