Tyson: Don’t just care for chickens, care about them
For a company like Tyson Foods, which harvests about 43 million broilers every week, it would be easy for people affiliated with the company to forget that each of those chickens is an individual. However, Dallas Wynn, Tyson’s senior manager of animal welfare, says it is important not to forget. While speaking during the Flocking Together to Address Poultry Welfare Challenges symposium on October 12. The symposium was hosted by the University of Arkansas and the Center for Food Animal Well-Being.
Wynn shared some advice he once heard from Candace Croney, director, Purdue University Center for Animal Welfare, was well worth sharing again: Don’t just care for the birds, care about them. “If you think about it, it’s two different things. Caring for them is making sure they’ve got feed, they’ve got water, they’ve got all that stuff. Caring about them is (thinking) ‘I wonder what kind of experience they’re having.’” It’s all a part of the responsibility of raising broiler chickens, Wynn said. Read more