MICA: Monitor de iniciativas corporativas por los animales
Company Positions and Progress 2024
Elimination of confinement of hens exploited for egg production
The best of the evaluated companies
Companies without a cage-free commitment
Companies that advanced in rank
Companies that dropped in rank
Reports
Download the reports for 2024 and past years here.
What is MICA?
Monitor de Iniciativas Corporativas por los Animales
Monitor de Iniciativas Corporativas por los Animales (MICA) has positioned itself as an essential transparency tool for analyzing and evaluating the most influential Latin American food and hospitality companies on animal welfare performance, particularly their progress in ending one of the worst animal-production practices: cage confinement of hens in their egg supply chains. The analysis considers the companies’ positions on their cage-free policies and their progress in implementing them.
Organizations throughout Latin America have supported us in preparing this report: Plataforma Alto in Colombia; ARBA and Compromiso Verde in Peru; Observatorio Animal in Chile and Argentina; PAE and Terranimal in Ecuador; and Mercy For Animals in Brazil, Mexico, and the rest of Latin America. In this fourth edition of MICA, we focus our analysis on the public reports (or lack thereof) of 58 major companies with operations in Latin America, providing an overview of their progress and urging them to end cage confinement, which affects hundreds of millions of hens in the region.
Our analysis is based on available public information, including annual and sustainability reports. For our purposes, such reports must reflect the percentage of eggs in a company’s Latin American operations that are cage-free.
Classification of companies by progress
We have adjusted the evaluation criteria to reflect expected progress as we approach the 2025 cage-free deadline set by many companies in Latin America and around the world.
Importantly, the policies and reports of retail distributors must cover 100% of shell eggs. Those of the other sectors evaluated must cover 100% of the egg supply: shell eggs, liquid eggs, and egg ingredients.
Close to compliance Public reporting
Significant progress Public reporting
We want to help you
Cage confinement of hens is one of the worst egg-industry practices. In Latin America, the primary focus of our corporate animal-welfare relations is banning cages for hens.
Our corporate engagement department can advise and guide your company in adopting and fulfilling a public cage-free commitment.
The world is constantly changing. Meeting society’s demand for practices that reduce animal suffering is increasingly on today’s corporate agendas.
By making changes to embrace evolving consumer attitudes, companies become industry leaders.
Please do not hesitate to contact us. We want you to be part of this global movement to free hens from cages.
MICA is key in evaluating companies on animal welfare progress, especially as it concerns eliminating cages for hens in their egg supply chains. Additionally, it details each company’s transitional stage.
MICA aims to provide transparency to the consumer by showing which companies still allow practices in Latin America that are already prohibited in other parts of the world. Our analysis also promotes positive competition among brands, as it encourages them to gain market share by meeting consumer demand for higher-welfare supply chains.
Mercy For Animals
Mercy For Animals is a leading international nonprofit working to end industrial animal agriculture by constructing a just and sustainable food system. Active in Brazil, Canada, India, Mexico, and the United States, the organization has conducted over 100 investigations of factory farms and slaughterhouses, influenced over 500 corporate policies, and helped pass historic legislation to ban cages for farmed animals.