Southeast Asia is home to a burgeoning and rapidly evolving landscape of industrial animal agriculture. Over the past few decades, the region has witnessed a significant shift towards intensified production systems to meet the growing demand for animal-based protein. Large-scale intensive farms are replacing small-scale backyard operations.
The scale of industrial animal agriculture in Southeast Asia is huge. This subregion is the world’s third largest producer of farmed animals for food – at around 9 billion land animals in 2021.
Welfare Matters conducted a landscape research study that aimed to understand the scale, distribution, and trends within the animal agriculture industry. We have scoped the focus on six Southeast Asian countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, The Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam (collectively referred to as SEA-6 in this report).
You can access the report here: https://www.welfarematters.org/research
We are hosting a webinar on the report, inviting you to join us for a discussion about the industrial animal agriculture in Southeast Asia, and how we can make our food system a more sustainable and humane one.
In this webinar, we’ll be sharing about some findings from the report:
Statistics of farmed land animals in SEA-6
The state of legislation for farmed animal protection
Trade numbers for live animals and animal products
Zoonotic outbreaks from farmed animals in this region
Overview of animal agriculture in each SEA-6 country
Speaker: Lefteris Statharas, Researcher, Welfare Matters
Date: 29 August, 2023
Time: 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM (GMT+7) / 8:00 PM to 9:00 PM (GMT+8)