MONTREAL — Canada’s largest diary processor, Montreal-based Saputo, is hoping to spur the adoption of global animal welfare standards by refusing to buy milk from farmers that don’t treat their animals humanely.
The change is part of a new animal welfare policy the company released Monday, nearly a year after it became entangled in a controversy when an undercover video was made public showing cows being punched, kicked and beaten with pipes at one of its suppliers.
“It raised a lot of comments and questions and concerns especially here at Saputo about what our policy is and if it is robust enough,” CEO Lino Saputo Jr. said in an interview.
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