Animal welfare largely ignored: groupSHORTCOMINGS: While the livestock industry is increasingly engaged in animal-friendly farming, there has been little support from the food industry, the group saidBy Esme Yeh / Staff reporterOnly two companies in the food industry incorporated animal welfare as a material topic in their sustainability reports last year, the Environmental and Animal Society of Taiwan said yesterday, urging the Financial Supervisory Commission to introduce mandatory regulations. Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Jean Kuo, second left, and representatives of the Environmental and Animal Society of Taiwan hold up signs at a news conference in Taipei yesterday. None of the 58 inspected companies has set up concrete policies or departments dedicated to animal welfare, she said. Many global organizations, as well as the WHO, consider animal welfare one of the most important sustainability indicators for the food industry and a key aspect to its global competitiveness, Chen said. The commission would explore whether animal welfare should be specified in the rules to mandate relevant sustainability disclosures for the food industry, it said.

Source: Taipei Times January 08, 2026 17:14 UTC