SUSTAINABILITY FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE July 2024 61 1. Context & Methodology: This section highlights the pet food industry's potential to drive sustainability within its supply chain. It emphasizes the need for the industry to tackle environmental, social, and animal welfare issues. 2. Potential Material Impacts and Risks: Here, companies can identify the most significant impacts and risks within their supply chains. This identification process is crucial for prioritizing actions that will have the most substantial positive effect. 3. Assessing Impacts and Risks: This part provides a framework for evaluating the significance of identified risks. Such assessments ensure that sustainability efforts are focused and effective. 4. Summary of Potential Material Impacts of Eight Relevant Species: Offering environmental impacts, animal welfare impacts, and considerations for responsible sourcing for farmed beef cattle, deer, broiler chickens, egg-laying hens, lamb, pigs, salmon, and turkey. 5. Taking Corporate Action: Guidance is given on formalizing responsible sourcing strategies. Companies are encouraged to set clear objectives and targets, engage with stakeholders, and measure their progress. Transparency and accountability are emphasized as key components of successful sustainability initiatives. DEEPER DIVE INTO ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS The environmental impacts of an average ingredient supply chain have been summarized in the following table. The relative significance is the combination of the likelihood of the impact occurring for a given species in a certain region or production system and the severity of the impact, including its scale, scope, and irremediable character. OVERALL STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS To bring the Blueprint to life, pet food companies can adopt several effective strategies: 1. Switch to lower-impact proteins: The pet industry should reduce its reliance on animal-sourced proteins by incorporating alternative proteins like plantbased, insect, or other ingredients with better impacts. 2. Source from certified suppliers: Companies should source animal proteins from producers certified by credible environmental, social, or animal welfare assurance schemes that exceed industry standards. 3. Give preference to extensive systems: Even without a certification, better environmental and animal welfare outcomes can be achieved by prioritizing producers using extensive systems, such as regenerative agriculture or silvopastoral practices. 4. Be an active participant: Engage supply chain partners, the broader food industry and those industries that rely on products from animal agriculture, peer companies, the PSC, and other relevant stakeholders to improve the impacts of conventional intensive production. A PATH TO A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE The PSC Blueprint is a comprehensive tool designed to help the pet food industry tackle sustainability challenges. By focusing on responsibly sourcing animal proteins, the industry can significantly influence the global food system towards a more sustainable future. The commitment to sustainability within the pet food industry is not just a moral imperative but a Environmental Impact Deforestation, GHG Emissions, land use, water use Safe working conditions, fair labor standards, freedom from forced labor Nutrition composition, bio-availability, digestibility Protect health, prevent pain & distress, promote comfort and animal’s natural behavior Social Impact Nutrition Animal Welfare
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