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Animal Welfare Policy
Barnes & Noble’s goal is for everything we sell to be produced under high quality and ethical standards. For the food and beverages that we serve, this means a commitment to socially responsible standards, including the promotion of animal welfare. We desire to source from suppliers who share our commitment to humane practices throughout an animal’s lifecycle. We encourage the following practices:
- Supporting the responsible use of antibiotics to promote animal health, including the elimination of routine uses, such as growth promotion and routine disease prevention, of medically important antibiotics;
- Eliminating the use of artificial growth hormones, and for poultry, fast growing practices;
- Addressing concerns related to dehorning, tail docking, and castration both with and without anesthesia;
- Phasing out gestation crates for pigs and cages for chickens; and
- Improving the welfare of broiler chickens.
Specifically, our priority is to ensure we offer food made with ingredients such as poultry processed through humane systems and cage-free eggs.
Broiler Chicken Welfare
By the end of 2027, we will source only chickens which have been processed in a manner that avoids live-dumping and live-shackling, and instead utilizes a pre-shackle, multi-step controlled-atmosphere processing system that’s widely hailed as more humane.
Cage-free Eggs
We continue to make positive progress in increasing the availability of food products made with cage-free eggs and egg ingredients across our assortment. We are on target to achieve our 100% cage-free goal by the end of 2027.