When it comes to animal welfare policies and processes, count on us to lead the way. In fact, we're recognized by the world’s foremost experts in animal well-being as setting the standard for America's pork industry—and we're applying those same best practices to our global operations.
Responsibility — Animal Welfare Recognition
"Smithfield Foods and its Murphy-Brown production division are to be commended for their continuing commitment to ensuring animal welfare at its farms and abattoirs that is as high as is currently possible. Those efforts are pursuant to Murphy-Brown's comprehensive Animal Welfare Management System…[a]n important reason this program has achieved such a successful record is that the company's executive officers and division managers have been ever mindful of the importance of assuring its customers that the foods it produces, processes, and purveys come from socially responsible farms, and they have done whatever necessary to earn that distinction…"
Stanley E. Curtis, Ph. D.
Department of Animal Sciences
University of Illinois at Urbana
"Since 2001 when Murphy-Brown first joined the Animal Agriculture Alliance, the company has impressed me as a true leader in developing solutions to challenges, great and small. The company's proactive initiative developing its animal welfare management program, which includes care both on-farm and during transportation, as well as its commitment to training its employees and growers on proper care and handling, sets the standard for the agricultural industry. Murphy-Brown doesn't just talk about solutions. It makes them happen."
Kay Johnson Smith
Executive Vice President
Animal Agriculture Alliance