Animal Welfare and Major Food Retailers

This paper offers an exploratory review of how some the major US and European food retailers have publicly addressed animal welfare. The findings reveal that six interlinked themes, namely, strategic corporate commitment, welfare as good business policy, a focus on supply chains, policies specific categories animals products, antibiotics, auditing, illustrated retailers’ approach to authors raise range issues about welfare, including aspirational nature their commitments, emphasis regular audits, role external assurance in reporting process, pressure from campaigns, impact COVID-19 pandemic. accessible issue Keywords: statements, retailers, chain, audit,