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Chipotle is a fast food company that talks a big game about sourcing animal products from responsible farms. The company’s “food with integrity” slogan assures customers that, “when sourcing meat, we work hard to find farmers and ranchers who are doing things the right way.”
But a careful examination of Chipotle’s animal welfare rhetoric
quickly confirms the lack of any hard commitment to the welfare ideals
it so breezily espouses. Without going into a systematic analysis of
Chipotle’s marketing verbiage, it’s quickly apparent that the most
common qualifier anchoring Chipotle to factory farming is this:
“whenever possible.” Yes, Chipotle will “work hard” to support welfare
standards “whenever possible.”
But these qualifiers have proven meaningless for the once
McDonald’s-owned company. In 2013, when the supply of antibiotic-free
beef dropped, the company allowed factory-farmed antibiotic-laden beef into the supply chain.
As this was happening, the company’ co-founder was telling the
media—who acted as scribes—things such as “The more consumers understand
the benefits of eating food from more sustainable sources, the more
they’re going to expect it from everyone.”
A sinister calculation is at work for Chipotle. On the one hand, it
waxes rhetorically about its high welfare standards and this rhetoric
serves to improve the company’s popularity. On the other, this
intensified popularity means that Chipotle’s demand for meat and dairy
will outstrip the supply of meat and dairy available from the farmers it
earnestly claims to support.
The upshot is almost criminal: the company benefits financially from a
pro-animal welfare reputation while giving the idea a token presence at
best in its increasingly expansive supply chain. At the end of the day,
if Chipotle needs commodity beef, chicken, or pork, it gets it.
Not terribly far beneath the media scrim, though, some critics are
becoming aware of Chipotle’s disingenuous dedication to sustainable and
humane animal farming. A rancher named Mike Callicrate,
for one, has been on a one-man mission to highlight the disparity
between Chipotle’s rhetoric and reality. He demonstrates with compelling
evidence that, as Chipotle was trotting out its “Food with Integrity”
program it was also buying standard commodity beef from Australia. Others are following the same scent.
And Chipotle, which is as media savvy as a company can be, is well
aware that the simmer of truth about its reliance on commodity meat is
about to reach a boil. It is thus not at all surprising that, last week,
the company, in a move that seemed obviously preemptive, shouted out to
an adoring media that it had suspended one of its pork suppliers for welfare violations. The farm was using farrowing crates for sows, but Chipotle prefers “deeply bedded pens.”
The media response—overwhelmingly supportive
of a company that would make such a sacrifice—bought the tactic hook,
line, and sinker. But in so doing it misses three critical points.
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