动物健康与福利报告 2023/24年度

2023/24ReportingYear Our position on Animal Health and Welfare3Close confinement7Routine physical/surgical interventions10Transport and fitness to travel12Animal handling16Slaughter20Cross-species enrichment26Species Deep Dive29Dairy, Poultry, Laying hens, Pigs29Beef, Cattle & Lamb, Lamb37Aquatic Animals39Innovation40Celebrating success in our supply chain42 Our position onAnimal Health and Welfare. Rearing livestock well and ensuring high welfare standards apply throughoutananimal’slifeare vital to ensuring high quality products of which we can be proud. Animal health and welfare is a key component of our wider sustainable farming agenda andisembedded withinone of the core pillars ofourPlanet Plan. Ourapproachto Animal Health and Welfareincludes: •Tesco Welfare Approved (TWA) standards, which are species-specific and follow the FiveFreedoms proposed by the Farm Animal Welfare Committee, aim to ensure transparencyacross our supply chains and are designed and regularly reviewed to drive improvement.•A requirement that all farms mustcomplywith arecognisedfarm assurance schemesuchas Red Tractor, in addition to meeting out TWA requirements.•A focus on antibiotic usage reduction as part of the Food Industry Initiative onAntimicrobials (FIIA) andin line withour antibiotic use commitments, which includepubliclyreport progress.•Not supporting,commissioning,or carryingout animal testing on any of our products orthe ingredients they contain, and nor do our suppliers on our behalf. Being transparent about our policies, standards and progress is important To help us identify animal welfare issues concerning physical,mental,and behaviouralwellbeing in our supply chain, we have a system of reporting on animal welfare outcomemeasures. In2023/24we achieved a compliance rate of 96% for Tesco UK and ROI, in termsof complete submissions for each reporting period. Unless otherwise specified the datarelates toOwn Brand product supplied toTesco UK (excluding Booker) and ROI. Welfare outcome measures derived from animal-based indicators are increasingly used byindustry to assess welfare impacts. These measures give an indicationof how animals are coping within a particular environment including on farm, during transport and up to andincluding the point of slaughter. Reporting data is used to evidence compliance with ouroverarching animal welfare policy requirements, e.g. close confinement, maximum transporttimes over land and pre-slaughter stunning, that are applicable to all species. These are thensupplemented with a range of species-specific measures. Currently this relates to red meat(beef, lamb and venison), pork, poultry (chicken, turkey and duck), laying hens, crustacea(warm water prawns), and fin-fish species (salmon, trout, bass, bream and pangasius)in allfarms across our global supply base, applicable to TescoUKand ROI Own Brandproducts. We aim to use data to support our decision-making, recognising the synergy between animalwelfare and sustainable production and gaining insight into practices associated with betterholistic outcomes. Animal Welfare Indicators These indicators are essentially the criteria which have traditionally underpinned the FiveFreedoms,but we also take into account the Five Domainsmodel which recognises theimpact on both the physical and mental well-being of animals and their standing as sentientbeings.We support those management practices that actively promote positive welfarerather than just ensuring an ‘absence of negatives’. We actively promote the importance ofensuring management practices allow animals to exhibit positive behaviours as well asensuring the absence of negative outcomes. A good example of this is the requirement ofcattle brushes across all our Tesco Sustainable Dairy Group farms, whereby we require aminimum of one brush to the nearest one hundred cowsand theinclusionof peckingobjectsand perchesacross our UK broiler supply base. How do we collect welfare outcome measure data? Welfare outcome data istypically submitted by suppliers monthly and/or derived as part ofour ongoing programme of independent Tesco Welfare Approved (TWA) inspections. The data allows Tesco to track and trend relative performance within any given sector andmonitor individualsupplier performance over time. This is pivotal to our supplier engagementand enables us to support improvement and good practice. Key measures and trends are reportedin the rest of the report.TescoUK accounts forroughly 74% of all Tesco Group product by sales value. These are sector averages for thereporting period March 2023–February 2024(across the whole supplying geography).Previously published comparative data is also illustrated for theprevious two years. Thisillustrates our approach to performance monitoring and feedback. As a consequence of the impact of COVID-19, thetwoyears, up to March 2022 presentedexceptional challenges to the supply base as a whole and disrupted both normal processingschedules and establishe