Corporate Responsibility
Animal Welfare
At Donald’s Fine Foods, we take the care of farm animals - from farming to transportation to harvesting – seriously. We firmly believe that good animal husbandry practices and humane handling are ethical responsibilities and deliver many benefits, including improving the quality of our products.
The responsibility for and a commitment to high standards for animal care is shared among our employees and service providers. All our producers comply with the Canadian Pork Excellence (CPE) Program, a national platform that allows registered pork producers to demonstrate compliance with the three on-farm-programs food safety, animal care, and traceability. In addition to the CPE Program, PAACO (Professional Animal Auditor Certification Organization) certified auditors perform detailed assessment of our programs and policies, as well as visit our producers to ensure that nationally developed guidelines and best practices for the care and handling of farm animals are consistently met.
Transportation
The transport of animals from the farm is an important step in the food chain and must be done in accordance with federal regulation governing the transport of farm animals. We believe it is critical that the entire transportation process (including loading, transit, and unloading) does not cause injury or suffering to the animals. We follow Humane Transportation Regulations and require our transportation companies to adhere to the regulations and policies regarding farm animal transport. Our producers are registered commercial farmers who work with commercial veterinarians and Canadian Livestock Transport (CLT) certified transporters.
Our Commitment
Our company policy serves as a reminder to all our employees that the welfare of animals under their care comes before any economic consideration. We endorse the sound management and welfare practices for housing, care and transportation. Our unwavering commitment to animal welfare (housing, care, transportation) includes a combination of internal audits, animal welfare training, third party audits, and 24/7 on site surveillance.
We stress vigilance in our everyday work to ensure high standards of animal care: not only is it the right thing to do, it also leads to excellent product.
For more information, please visit the website below:
Canadian Pork Excellence (CPE) Program
National Farm Animal Care Council
CFIA Humane Transport / Animal Welfare
Canadian Food Inspection Agency
Canadian Livestock Transport (CLT)
Environment
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Good Neighbour & Community Program
At Donald’s Fine Food’s, the practice of working with our neighbours to support and invest in local organizations and institutions is one avenue that we use to show our commitment to our communities Proudly giving back to the community is important to us and demonstrates our commitment to contribute to the communities in which we live and operate.
Our good neighbour and community program focuses mainly on the environment, health and lifestyle in the communities where our plants are located: the Lower Mainland of British Columbia and in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.
We are proud to play a constructive role in supporting the efforts of individuals and organizations committed to building a better society. This philosophy dates back to the very earliest days of the company: complementing and extending the contributions made through the company’s successful business activities.
We take pride in knowing that we are able to help the communities through our modest efforts to support our local hospitals and soup kitchens. Our association with B.C. Children’s Hospital and Cancer Research Center, local hospitals and soup kitchens are a few examples. We also support research by donating specimen from the animals we process.
Donald’s Fine Foods and the Leung family have been long-term supporters of the following organizations in our community:
BC Children’s Hospital
BC Women’s Hospital and Health Care Foundation
Richmond Hospital Foundation
Vancouver Food Bank
BC Cancer Society
VGH & UBC Foundation
Supplier Code of Conduct
Our company strongly believes in the values of honesty, integrity, accountability, ethical behaviour, and quality relationships with all our stakeholders, which include our team members, customers, suppliers, farmers, and communities.
For more information, please visit the link below:
Supplier Code Of Conduct