{"id":8209,"date":"2023-02-13T16:01:46","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T08:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/?p=8209"},"modified":"2023-02-13T16:01:47","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T08:01:47","slug":"mft-group-praised-for-new-cage-free-egg-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/mft-group-praised-for-new-cage-free-egg-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"MFT Group praised for new cage-free egg policy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Private equity firm MFT Group won praise today from international non-profit Lever Foundation for its new commitment to source only cage-free eggs by 2025 for all of its food-related brands.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MFT Group&#8217;s portfolio includes financial services, real\nestate, healthcare, and food and beverage brands. Its subsidiary Waterwoods\nGroup Corporation produces ready-to-eat products for several leading retail and\nconvenience chains in the Philippines, including FamilyMart. The Group also\noperates Mimi &amp; Bros in the Philippines, La Lola Churreria in Singapore,\nand SaladStop! restaurants in Vietnam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur company strives for excellence while always keeping an\neye on community impact and social responsibility. Committing to the finest\ningredients is paramount for us, which is why we have decided to switch to\nusing only cage-free eggs and egg ingredients by 2025 for all of our\nfood-related brands,\u201d said Astrid Serrano, Head of F&amp;B Operations for MFT\nGroup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe applaud MFT Group\nfor this important cage-free commitment,\nwhich will benefit Filipino consumers, while also\nimproving the welfare of animals in the company\u2019s supply chain,&#8221; said Robyn del\nRosario, Sustainability Program Manager at Lever Foundation, which worked with MFT on its pledge. \u201cMFT is the first fresh food manufacturer\nin the Philippines to announce a cage-free commitment, and we encourage other\ncompanies to follow MFT\u2019s great example in order to protect food safety and\nanimal welfare.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leading animal protection and food safety\norganizations worldwide encourage a switch to cage-free eggs, which are less\ncruel to animals and safer for consumers. On caged egg farms, each egg-laying\nhen is confined in a cage so small she can barely turn around for nearly her\nentire life. Research\nby the European Food Safety Authority and others has found that cage-free egg\nfarms are up to 25 times less likely to be contaminated with key salmonella\nstrains than hens raised in cages. Battery cage egg production has been banned\nthroughout the European Union as well as in Australia, New Zealand, the UK,\nCanada, India, and parts of the United States. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Demand for cage-free eggs is\nflourishing in the Philippines, spurred by consumer demand for healthier\noptions and concern for animal welfare. In recent\nyears a growing list of restaurant, hospitality, retail and packaged foods\nbrands have pledged to use only cage-free eggs in the country. In\nresponse to the growing shift, in 2020 the Bureau of Agriculture and Fisheries\nStandards (BAFS) initiated the development of a national Code of Practice (COP)\nfor Cage-free Egg Production, a comprehensive set of animal welfare guidelines\nfor the growing cage-free egg sector. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Private equity firm MFT Group won praise today from international non-profit Lever Foundation for its new commitment to source only cage-free eggs by 2025 for all of its food-related brands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8210,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16,13],"tags":[1657,964,2242,303],"class_list":["post-8209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsmakers","category-product-showcase","category-business-builders","tag-business","tag-eggs","tag-product-showcase","tag-sustainable-products"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8211,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8209\/revisions\/8211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}