Whole Foods Establishes Foundation for Compassionate Treatment of Farm Animals
Whole Foods Market, Inc.(Nasdaq: WFMI) is celebrating its 25th year of operations by establishing the Animal Compassion Foundation. The company, the world's leading natural/ organic foods supermarket, says it will donate five percent of total global sales on January 25 to launch the foundation. The independent, non-profit organization will provide education and research services to assist and inspire ranchers and meat producers around the world to achieve a higher standard of animal welfare excellence while still maintaining economic viability. "By creating the Foundation, Whole Foods Market is pioneering an entirely new way for people to relate to farm animals — with the animals' welfare becoming the most important goal," said John Mackey, chairman, chief executive officer and co-founder of Whole Foods Market. "There are many universities and organizations out there doing research making production systems more productive and profitable, but there is no one place where meat producers can go to learn about making their processes more compassionate. We are out to change that with this Foundation." The Animal Compassion Foundation will allow ranchers and producers the opportunity to visit and learn from others who are innovating animal husbandry techniques to create the ideal environments and conditions to support every […]