{"id":222,"date":"2019-06-11T17:40:42","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T17:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=222"},"modified":"2019-06-11T17:40:52","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T17:40:52","slug":"coca-cola-taking-action-to-address-animal-abuses-at-fair-oaks-farms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2019\/06\/11\/coca-cola-taking-action-to-address-animal-abuses-at-fair-oaks-farms\/","title":{"rendered":"Coca Cola &#8211; Taking Action to Address Animal Abuses at Fair Oaks Farms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By:&nbsp;<\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coca-colacompany.com\/search.html?q=The%20Coca-Cola%20Company\">The&nbsp;Coca-Cola&nbsp;Company<\/a><\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"749\" height=\"475\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1110px) 100vw, 1110px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/fairlife-1.jpg?resize=749%2C475\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/fairlife-1.jpg?w=749&amp;ssl=1 749w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/fairlife-1.jpg?resize=300%2C190&amp;ssl=1 300w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last week, we were devastated to see a video from Animal\nRecovery Mission (ARM) showing acts of animal cruelty at Fair Oaks Farms, one\nof the&nbsp;30&nbsp;suppliers to our partners at fairlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We care deeply about animal welfare, and these acts left all\nof us at&nbsp;Coca-Cola with heavy hearts. Any form of animal cruelty is\nunacceptable and against our values. That\u2019s why we\u2019re taking immediate action\nwith our partners at fairlife to make this right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>fairlife&nbsp;immediately&nbsp;discontinued\nthe use of milk from Fair Oaks Farms. No milk from any Fair Oaks Farms\nlocations will be included in fairlife products.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>In addition,\nThe&nbsp;Coca-Cola&nbsp;Company is immediately conducting our own independent\ninvestigations of all fairlife\u2019s dairy suppliers to ensure they uphold the\nhighest standards of animal welfare. This is in addition to the audits by\nfairlife that will begin this week.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are more of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffairlife.com%2Fnews%2Ffairlife-statement-regarding-arm-video%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cjmoye%40coca-cola.com%7C4793216655d34e2e0fc408d6edc8b3ee%7C548d26ab8caa49e197c2a1b1a06cc39c%7C0%7C0%7C636957843596041491&amp;sdata=7VwDXf630r20Qafx0U9tJUdT623THWRfyWnowBfd%2BeU%3D&amp;reserved=0\">actions fairlife is immediately taking<\/a>&nbsp;to\nprotect animals at all its supplying farms:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>fairlife is visiting all 30 of its supplying farms in the next 30 days to confirm there are no systemic animal welfare issues. This will be completed by      July 6, 2019.\u00a0<\/li><li>fairlife is increasing the frequency of its random audits to 24 per year for each of its supplying farms, all of which will be unannounced.<\/li><li>fairlife will require that all supplying farms\u2019 employees are re-certified in animal welfare training on an annual basis.<\/li><li>fairlife is demanding its supplying farms continue to enforce a zero-tolerance policy for animal abuse, which will result in termination of any employees caught abusing an animal and, as appropriate, an investigation by law enforcement.\u00a0In this case, the individuals who participated in these acts were terminated and anyone else associated with this issue will be held responsible for their actions.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>At The&nbsp;Coca-Cola&nbsp;Company, we\nare also taking action to ensure that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.coca-colacompany.com%2Fstories%2Fqa-with-coca-colas-head-of-sourcing-about-dairy-and-animal-welfare&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cjmoye%40coca-cola.com%7C4793216655d34e2e0fc408d6edc8b3ee%7C548d26ab8caa49e197c2a1b1a06cc39c%7C0%7C0%7C636957843596051495&amp;sdata=i6hwu%2FvD5kzCsC7Cd8d5IgNYXHrq9CMalFYG7C0PoS8%3D&amp;reserved=0\">internationally recognized animal welfare standards are\nappropriately enforced<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;through our Sustainable\nAgriculture Guiding Principles, our Supplier Guiding Principles and our\nauditing processes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is our top priority.&nbsp;<strong>We know people have high\nexpectations of&nbsp;our conduct and products, and we can play an important\nrole in improving animal welfare across the dairy industry.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.coca-colacompany.com%2Fcontent%2Fjourney%2Fus%2Fen%2Fpress-center%2Fcompany-statements%2Fjim-dinkins-shares-message-with-coca-cola-employees.html&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cjmoye%40coca-cola.com%7C4793216655d34e2e0fc408d6edc8b3ee%7C548d26ab8caa49e197c2a1b1a06cc39c%7C0%7C0%7C636957843596051495&amp;sdata=r0lQLE8ivmRw0b%2ByPQI4eAA722l4ufye94jsMhW7f4o%3D&amp;reserved=0\">Read&nbsp;Coca-Cola&nbsp;North America President Jim\nDinkins\u2019 Message to Employees.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By:&nbsp;The&nbsp;Coca-Cola&nbsp;Company&nbsp; Last week, we were devastated to see a video from Animal Recovery Mission (ARM) showing acts of animal cruelty at Fair Oaks Farms, one of the&nbsp;30&nbsp;suppliers to our partners&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regional-and-world-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}