Our mission is to be a trusted, respected, and ethical food industry leader that excels at bringing delicious and nutritious meat and specialty food products to millions every day while setting industry standards for corporate social responsibility (CSR).
Our Core Values
We will constantly strive for the following:
- To produce safe, high-quality, nutritious food
- To be an employer of choice
- To advance the well being of our animals
- To protect the environment
- To have a positive impact on our communities
In 2010, we took significant steps to advance our CSR strategy, including how we manage sustainability issues across our company. We formed two new sustainability committees (one for our board of directors, the other for top executives across our company), created a new position of chief sustainability officer, and developed a series of goals and performance targets. While we had been focused on CSR for a number of years, these latest steps are taking our program to a new level.
Our strong framework of governance, management, and accountability for ethical behavior is the key to upholding our mission and core values, and maintaining the trust of investors and stakeholders. In this section of our Web reporting, we discuss our governance and new CSR management structures, our ethical standards and programs, our new CSR targets, our supply chain management, our stakeholder engagement efforts, public policy issues of interest to our company, and our political contributions. This section also discusses the results of a materiality analysis we conducted in 2010 to help us better understand—and better report on—the CSR issues that are of greatest importance to our company and to our stakeholders. We did not update the materiality analysis we first included in our 2009/10 CSR report, but we expect to do so in the future.
