In a first for poultry industries worldwide, the meat poultry industry in Australia has developed a Sustainability Plan, along similar lines to that produced by the Australian red meat industries.
It identifies how the industry will move to sustainability in four key areas:
- The Birds – including animal husbandry, animal welfare, antimicrobial stewardship and biosecurity
- The Planet – including climate resilience, carbon accounting, feedstock, sustainable packaging, waste and water management
- The People – including diversity, workforce attraction, training, and job creation
- Economic Performance and Food Security. – including food safety, production and consumption, financial value and research and development
It’s fair to say that the processors are taking on some pretty big change in the move to sustainability. It’s also fair to say that the first drafts put significant impost and cost onto growers and ACGC negotiated hard to ensure that growers’ inputs were both meaningful and less costly. The real change for growers out of this plan will be that every farm in Australia will have to develop thier own written biosecurity plan.
AGRI004 – ACM Sustainability Framework – V4 (complete doc V2)
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