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A Collaborative Approach to Sustainability
Episode 13rd February 2021 • Caring for Animals & Creating Trust in Food • Copyright © 2023 Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ USA, and its affiliates. All rights reserved.
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Dr. Angela Basinger is the animal welfare lead for North America for Merck Animal Health. She works to create sustainability across the entire food chain including the producer, retailer and veterinary medical professional. She is joined by Nicole Johnson-Hoffman, senior vice president and chief sustainability officer at the OSI group. 

“There needs to be a multi-stakeholder collaborative approach taken in order to improve beef sustainability and to do that in ways that work for everybody.” -Nicole Johnson-Hoffman

“Our work has no credibility if our critics don’t participate in the work….we have to engage with our communities and our critics in order to understand what they care about and what they expect from us as participants in the industry.” - Nicole Johnson-Hoffman

This Week’s Podcast:

  • Meet Nicole Johnson-Hoffman, senior vice president and chief sustainability officer of the OSI Group 
  • Explore sustainability roundtables practices, participants and purposes
  • Learn about discussions and priorities taking place in different animal agriculture groups
  • Discover how you can become an active part of these discussions to contribute in the perpetual evolution of animal agriculture. 

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