Adele Douglass Jolley, the founder of Certified Humane®, never imagined how the program’s reach would grow on such a global scale. The reason it did so is largely because a Brazilian animal welfare researcher — studying for her doctorate at Purdue University in 2005 — decided to lend her expertise as an inspector for the burgeoning program.

Dr. Joy Mench was one of the founding scientists and veterinarians whom Adele Douglass Jolley recruited to adopt farm animals certification standards for the United States market.

“We had a really good group of people working together,” said Joy as she recalled those early days, now more than 20 years ago. “We each brought different kinds of expertise.

As a scientist, Richard Blatchford, Ph.D., loves that new scientific knowledge can inform better decisions for farm animals.
“In animal welfare, really small changes you make actually have a really big impact, given the sheer numbers of animals involved,” Richard said.

Founded in 2020 by CEO Huynh Hanh Phuc, Green Connect produces cage-free eggs in the Nhon Trach district in Dong Nai province, Vietnam. With about five thousand laying hens raised to Certified Humane® Farm Animal Care Standards, Green Connect produces between 70,000 and 90,000 eggs per month at the peak of production under the brand …

The model farm of the Faculty of Animal Sciences at Gadja Madah University (UGM), in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, was created to operate as a faulty training center emphasizing the importance of animal welfare in the poultry industry. As an educational institution, UGM’s journey towards establishing a cage-free egg farm was a collaborative effort. To ensure efficiency, …