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Animal Welfare-Friendly Practices
Just as with our coffee, Starbucks goal is for all of our products to meet highquality and ethical standards. For the food and dairy we serve, this means acommitment to social responsibility standards with animal welfare as a primaryfocus. We are committed to working with and buying from farmers andsuppliers who share our commitment to humane practices throughout an
animal’s lifecycle.
Encouraging Industry Best Practices
In 2009, Starbucks established a buying preference in North America to use
industry best practices for animal husbandry and processing for dairy, egg, andmeat production. As this covers a wide range of practices, in consultation withkey stakeholders including our partners (employees) and customers, key nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and through industry engagement, ourcurrent areas of focus include:•Supporting the responsible use of antibiotics to promote animal health,including the elimination of routine uses, such as growth promotion androutine disease prevention, of medically important antibiotics•Eliminating the use of artificial growth hormones, and for poultry, fastgrowing practices•

Addressing concerns related to dehorning, tail docking, and castration
both with and without anesthesia
Phasing out gestation crates for pigs and cages for chickens
Improving the welfare of broiler chickens••

Specifically, our priority is to ensure we offer food made with ingredients suchas cage-free eggs, gestation crate-free pork, and poultry processed throughmore humane systems such as CAK. For each of these focus areas, we work with
the industry and stakeholders on increasing available supply and creating
reasonable timeframes for achieving our goals.
Poultry Welfare
Cage-Free Eggs
Since Starbucks first began buying cage-free eggs in 2008, we have madesignificant progress, increasing our purchases year over year. While there havebeen great strides in availability of the supply in the U.S., there is still work to bedone across the industry to increase supply to address market availability
globally. We committed to working with our suppliers toward our goal toexclusively use 100 percent cage-free eggs and egg products in companyoperated stores globally by 2020. This commitment extends to all Starbucks© 2021 Starbucks Corporation.

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branded products, including those supplied to our licensee business partners inNorth America.
As of July 2021, 100 percent of shell eggs and 99.99 percent of liquid eggs inNorth America company-operated stores are cage-free. In total, over 96
percent of all eggs, including those used as ingredients, in Starbucks locations
across North America come from cage-free chickens.
In EMEA company-operated stores, 100 percent of egg and egg products arecage-free and 99.99 percent of liquid eggs are cage-free.
Antibiotics
Starbucks engaged with our suppliers and set a goal to serve only poultry raised
without the routine use of medically important antibiotics in all companyoperated U.S. stores by 2020. We met that goal in 2018.
Broiler Chicken Welfare
We are committed to improve conditions for broiler chickens and are working
with our suppliers, licensees, and others in the industry to help ensure that by2024 the chicken we buy for our U.S. stores is produced in alignment with thefollowing Global Animal Partnership (GAP) standards as assessed by a thirdparty auditor:••••

Use of breeds proven to have better welfare outcomes
Reduce maximum stocking density to provide birds more space
Improve living environments including litter, lighting, and enrichment
Process chickens more humanely through a multi-step controlledatmosphere processing system

Sow Housing
Starbucks is phasing out the excessive use of gestation stalls for the sows
(mother pig) in our supply chain by 2030. The excessive use of gestation
stalls would include stalls where gestating sows do not have the ability toturn around. This commitment extends to all Starbucks branded products,including those supplied to our licensee business partners in the U.S. andCanada.
To reach our goal of phasing out the excessive use of gestation stalls, we will
specify 100% “group housed” pork as a requirement of our pork suppliers in
the U.S. and Canada and take steps to ensure a “group housed” pork supply
by 2024. We expect to demonstrate meaningful progress towards this goalin 2023. Group housing will significantly reduce a sow’s time in a gestationstall.

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We will provide annual updates on improvements in the care and welfare ofsows in our pork supply and continue to work with industry suppliers,
veterinarians, and animal welfare advocates to help us meet our goal. We will
also learn as the science evolves and industry consensus is forged regarding
standards and definitions on this matter. We will also engage oursustainability stakeholders to ensure our animal welfare commitments,
including our commitment to phase out the excessive use of gestation stalls,align as much as possible with our plan to reduce carbon, water, and waste
by 2030.
Establishing a Global Standard
While we prioritize compliance with existing local animal welfare laws andregulations, we also recognize there is considerable variance in regulatory rigor
across the many markets in which we do business. In cases where nationalstandards are not in place, are minimal, or are not consistently enforced, we use
the standards set for our U.S. business as our guideline. In addition tocommitting to this for our own business, we support the development of global
science-based national and international standards and guidelines.
Driving Toward Industry-wide Solutions
Some of the issues we would like our suppliers to address must happen at theindustry level. Recognizing the responsibility we have as the voice for ourpartners (employees) and customers, we continue to look for opportunities tocollaborate with others across our industry and the NGO community to promote
best practices. We participate and engage with organizations where issues
related to animal welfare can be addressed industry-wide.
Addressing Issues in our Supply Chain
In the event concerns arise with the practices of a supplier, our approach is towork with them to correct the issues, but there are times when we halt businessdue to the nature of the issues and until adequate resolution takes place.
Commitment to Transparency
Starbucks is committed to transparent and ongoing disclosure of our progress
towards achieving and maintaining our global Animal Welfare goals. We will
publicly publish annual updates on our performance throughout our companyoperated stores and provide information to industry organizations and otherstakeholders as requested.

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