9/24 Squad Update
Hello everyone!
We recently had our second meeting as a full squad. Here are our updates:
Animal Testing Issues:
Farm Animal Welfare:
We also discussed a few administrative issues (document storage, who is answering emails per topic, which education vehicles are available to us to share our research, attendance reporting, effective meeting formats, etc.) but I won't bore you with individual bullet points on those items.
We hope to have an update from our squad at a General Meeting soon!
Jesse on behalf of the Animal Welfare Committee
We recently had our second meeting as a full squad. Here are our updates:
Animal Testing Issues:
- The squad completed inventory of household products (aisle 5)
- The squad completed partial inventory of personal care products (aisle 4)
- We need to update online spreadsheet with new data and research products/companies that are still incomplete
- Since there are many products that are labeled "vegan", we'll be including a new column on our PSFC Product List - it will let you know whether all or some of a brand's products are vegan, since so many people are asking for this type of information (at this time we won't be reading ingredients lists for products that do NOT specify to discern whether they are vegan)
- We need to reach out to buyers of household and personal care items to see if there's an easier way to get inventory into our records and discuss products
- Please check out our PSFC Product List to check whether the products you buy at the co-op are tested on animals or not (thankfully NOT is much more likely!)
Farm Animal Welfare:
- The squad contributed suggestions for farm animal welfare educational resources we are considering using as reference; these were reviewed and discussed by the full squad
- Planned research and education materials (flyer) around PSFC's turkey supply for November - pending creating appropriate research questions relevant to turkey animal welfare and meeting with buyers responsible for turkey purchase
- We will include alternatives to turkey options on the Thanksgiving turkey informational flyer
- We plan to schedule tabling in front of PSFC to get this information to the membership and be able to meet more of our PSFC membership interested in animal welfare issues and hear their questions, concerns and thoughts
We also discussed a few administrative issues (document storage, who is answering emails per topic, which education vehicles are available to us to share our research, attendance reporting, effective meeting formats, etc.) but I won't bore you with individual bullet points on those items.
We hope to have an update from our squad at a General Meeting soon!
Jesse on behalf of the Animal Welfare Committee
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