Global Animal Partnership’s 5-Step Animal Welfare Rating Standards: a welfare-labelling scheme that allows for continuous improvement

One challenge with animal welfare assessment programmes is that standards that make a meaningful difference to welfare can be difficult for a broad spectrum of producers to meet, thereby preventing many from engaging at all. Global Animal Partnership’s (GAP’s) 5-Step™ Animal Welfare Rating Standards are unique in that they are designed as a multi-tiered system […]