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"Animal welfare is an important concern for ALDI Nord Germany and German citizens. As part of our initiatives to increase animal welfare, especially for livestock such as pigs, broilers, turkeys and cattle, we called for a change in husbandry practices (‘Haltungswechsel’): By 2030 we will consistently convert our fresh meat and drinking milk (fresh and UHT) to the more animal-friendly husbandry levels 3 and 4 (fresh air and organic farming). We started by changing our fresh pork from husbandry level 1 to husbandry level 2 (except fillets), and further extended the welfare labelling system (‘Haltungsform’) from fresh meat to cold cuts and other processed meat products in 2021.

From the beginning of 2022, we also labelled dairy products with the welfare labelling system. Responding to the concerns of farmers and customers, ALDI Nord Germany committed to converting the entire supply chain for fresh pork to 5D. This means that the entire supply chain is in Germany: from birth to slaughter and processing. Even before new legislation came into place, we halted the culling of male chicks for all our shell eggs. "