Last updated on January 27th, 2017 at 04:50 pm
Farm certifier A Greener World (AGW) has released a new logo for its third-party certification, Animal Welfare Approved.
One of AGW’s growing family of food labels, Animal Welfare Approved was launched in 2006 as a market-based solution to growing consumer demand for high-welfare, environmentally sustainable meat, eggs and dairy products. In late 2016, AGW says it learned that the license for its former Animal Welfare Approved logo would not be renewed and embarked upon a strategic campaign to launch a new logo to effectively communicate the wider benefits of Animal Welfare Approved farming and ranching.
According to AGW, Animal Welfare Approved is the only label in the marketplace to ensure:
• Meaningful, verified, outdoor pasture- and range-based systems—not just a door at the end of a building or an outdoor concrete run;
• No cages, crates or feedlots—ever;
• Verified environmentally sustainable farming and ranching;
• Responsible stewardship of public resources like air, water, soil and antibiotics;
• Independent farms/farmers meeting the highest animal welfare standards in the U.S. and Canada;
• Prohibit the use of hormones (like rBST), animal byproducts or routine antibiotics;
• Industry-leading high welfare handling and management from birth through slaughter;
• Independent standards for the inspection of slaughter plants;
• No conflicts of interest as the Animal Welfare Approved program relies on public donations; and
• Excellence in auditing and certifying according to Animal Welfare Approved’s ISO 17065 accreditation.
AGW Director of Outreach Emily Moose says, “When we take care of our people, our animals and our land, we achieve true sustainability. As the only completely pasture-based program in North America, we kept hearing loud and clear that there was a need for our logo to reflect the full, holistic picture of AWA, animal-centered farms and their benefits to the wider community and society as a whole. This was the perfect opportunity to launch a new logo that better reflects our program’s ethos of transparency and true sustainability. With Animal Welfare Approved, what you see is what you get—and what you get is pretty amazing.”
As part of the strategic campaign centered on the debut of the new logo, Animal Welfare Approved is relaunching its websites as animalwelfareapproved.us and animalwelfareapproved.ca to reflect the global nature of this growing brand, with animalwelfareapproved.sa coming soon with the launch of Animal Welfare Approved in South Africa. The new logo will be available in French and Spanish, with plans to translate AWA standards accordingly. Certified parties will transition to the new logo in the coming months, and A Greener World is offering a professional labeling support service to maximize the benefits of the new logo.
