MICA Monitor de Iniciativas Corporativas por los Animales

What is MICA?

Monitor de Iniciativas Corporativas por los Animales (MICA) analyzes the animal welfare performance of Latin America’s most influential food and hospitality companies. We focused on laying hen confinement across food industry segments in Latin America, ranking them according to their stance and progress on this matter.

In addition to numerous animal welfare deficiencies, conditions in cage production systems affect other relevant issues, such as public health, environmental degradation, and human rights violations. Animal welfare policies can drive strategies to meet the sustainable development goals adopted by the United Nations.

Companies must start making considerable progress on their cage-free transitions and publicly report this progress annually to show consumers and stakeholders transparency in their operations, as well as accountability in terms of social responsibility.

MICA Monitor de Iniciativas Corporativas por los Animales

What is MICA?

Monitor de Iniciativas Corporativas por los Animales (MICA) analyzes the animal welfare performance of Latin America’s most influential food and hospitality companies. We focused on laying hen confinement across food industry segments in Latin America, ranking them according to their stance and progress on this matter. 

Besides entailing numerous animal welfare deficiencies, conditions in this production system also affect other relevant issues, such as public health, environmental degradation, and human rights violations. Animal welfare policies can drive strategies to meet the sustainable development goals adopted by the United Nations.

Companies must start making considerable progress on their transitions and publicly report this progress on an annual basis to show consumers and stakeholders transparency in their operations, as well as accountability in terms of social responsibility. 

Company Ranking by Level

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Gold Level Seal
Gold Level: 100% Cage-Free
  • BRF New
  • Danone New
Silver Level Seal
Silver Level: Close to Fulfillment
  • Costco Same level
Bronze Level Seal
Bronze Level: Significant Progress, Public Reporting
  • Arcos DoradosSame level
  • GPA Same level
  • JBSNew
  • Subway Level up
Green Level: Some Progress, Demonstrated Transparency
  • CarrefourSame level
Yellow Level: Little or No Progress, Some Transparency
  • Accor level up
  • Aramark Same level
  • Barceló level up
  • Bimbo level up
  • BFFC Same level
  • Compass Same level
  • Crepes & WafflesNew
  • Ferrero New
  • Kraft Heinz Level down
  • Marriott International level up
  • Pif Paf New
  • Puratos Same level
  • Sodexo Same level
  • Unilever Level down
  • Walmart Brasil (Big)Level down

Orange Level: Not Transparent or Not Committed 

  • Alsea Same level
  • Arcor New
  • Best Western New
  • Cargill New
  • Cencosud level up
  • Colombina New
  • DIA Same level
  • Grupo Herdez level up
  • HEB New
  • Hershey New
  • Hilton Same level
  • InterContinental Hotelslevel down
  • Kellogg’s New
  • Mondelēz level down
  • Nestlé Same level
  • PepsiCo Same level
  • RBI Same level
  • Royal Caribbean Same level
Red Level: No Commitment and No Transparency
  • Alicorp new
  • Camil new
  • Carozzi new
  • Chedraui new
  • Falabella new
  • FEMSA same level
  • Grupo Éxito level down
  • Jeronimo Martins level down
  • Mars level down
  • Soriana same level
  • Walmart México y
    Centroamérica same level

Company Ranking by Level

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Gold Level Seal

Gold Level: 100% Cage-Free

  • BRF New
  • Danone New
Silver Level Seal
Silver Level: Close to Fulfillment
  • Costco Same level
Bronze Level Seal
Bronze Level: Significant Progress, Public Reporting
  • Arcos DoradosSame level
  • GPA Same level
  • JBSNew
  • Subway Level up
Green Level: Some Progress, Demonstrated Transparency

CarrefourSame level

Yellow Level: Little or No Progress, Some Transparency

Accor level up

Aramark Same level

Barceló level up

Bimbo level up

BFFC Same level

Compass Same level

Crepes & WafflesNew

Ferrero New

Kraft Heinz Level down

Marriott International level up

Pif Paf New

Puratos Same level

Sodexo Same level

Unilever Level down

Walmart Brasil (Big)Level down

Orange Level: Not Transparent or Not Committed

Alsea Same level

Arcor New

Best Western New

Cargill New

Cencosud level up

Colombina New

DIA Same level

Grupo Herdez level up

HEB New

Hershey New

Hilton Same level

InterContinental Hotelslevel down

Kellogg’s New

Mondelēz level down

Nestlé Same level

PepsiCo Same level

RBI Same level

Royal Caribbean Same level

Red Level: No Commitment and No Transparency

Alicorp new

Camil new

Carozzi new

Chedraui new

Falabella new

FEMSA same level

Grupo Éxito level down

Jeronimo Martins level down

Mars level down

Soriana same level

Walmart México y
Centroamérica same level

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