Yum China's social responsibility includes providing animals with the necessary welfare ensuring their healthy growth, promoting sustainable development in the agriculture sector, and providing consumers with high quality animal protein product.
Five Freedoms of Animal Welfare
- Ⅰ: Freedom from hunger, thirst and malnutrition.
- Ⅱ: Freedom from fear and distress.
- Ⅲ: Freedom from physical and thermal discomfort.
- Ⅳ: Freedom from pain, injury and disease.
- Ⅴ: Freedom to express normal patterns of behavior.
Yum China is committed to promoting the 'Five Freedoms' for animal welfare, ensuring the healthy growth of animals, and promoting the sustainable development of agriculture.
We formulated a series of Yum China Animal Welfare Policies and implemented animal welfare audits for broiler farming and slaughtering. In 2023, we added Yum China Dairy Cow Animal Welfare Standards.
On top of these, we established a collaborative platform to continuously promote industry cooperation and animal welfare management.
Starting in 2016, Yum China took the lead in removing the use of antimicrobial drugs important to human medicine as growth-promoting agents in broiler feed.
In 2020, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs issued a related national plan, and Yum China has guided domestic chicken suppliers to ensure full compliance ahead of schedule. Moreover, we developed and implemented a control program for domestic broiler suppliers to gradually reduce the use of other antimicrobial drugs by promoting scientific breeding and judicious use of veterinary drugs.
We actively introduce scientific concepts and share the best industry practices.
In 2022, Yum China released the third edition of the Broiler Breeding Technical Manual and the Guidelines for Managing and Administering Veterinary Drugs in Broiler Breeding to incorporate the latest national policy changes and our supplier management experience.
By doing so, we aim to promote scientific breeding and regulate the safe use of drugs in broiler breeding, so that our customers can enjoy in every bite.
