Golden Cockerel

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Owned	AUS
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Chicken

Company owned jointly by Benfer and Elk families (est 1972). Fully integrated with feed mills, hatcheries, parent and broiler farms, processing plant and distribution. Services major retailers, specialist and butcher shops in Australia and exports to Pacific Region.

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Golden Cockerel Pty Ltd
Australian Packaging Covenant signatory Signatory to the Australian Packaging Covenant, a voluntary agreement to encourage waste minimisation. Source: Australian Packaging Covenant (2020)	Factory Farming This company produces factory farmed chicken meat. Broiler chickens can legally be confined at a density that gives each bird less space than an single A4 sheet of paper. Every year in Australia 550 million chickens endure short and unnatural lives inside factory farms. This approach is fundamentally at odds with chicken welfare. Source: Voiceless (2019)	FREPA accreditation Golden Cockerel free range chicken is certified by Free Range Egg and Poultry Australia (FREPA). However this only represents a small percentage of this company's total chicken meat production. Source: FREPA (2020)

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