The Five Freedoms Ignored:

Columbia Threadneedle Investments

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This photo is representative of the standard industrial farming practices permitted in the company’s supply chain.
Photo: Andrew Skowron / We Animals
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Columbia Threadneedle Investment Is Funding This

Columbia Threadneedle Investment is one of the major investors in Marks & Spencer.

And as an investor in Marks & Spencer, Columbia Threadneedle Investment is profiting from some of the worst animal cruelty in the global food industry.

From being packed into overcrowded, filthy waters where fish’s bodies can become riddled with deformities and open sores from sea lice and other irritants to being cut open while alive and fully conscious — these are the everyday realities behind Marks & Spencer’s supply chain. Realities that Columbia Threadneedle Investment is helping fund.

Maybe they didn’t know.
But now, they do.
We told them.

We reached out directly to Columbia Threadneedle Investment, providing clear information of the cruelty they are enabling through their investment in Marks & Spencer. No response. No action. Just silence.

While responsible investors are pushing companies to modernize and eliminate outdated, abusive systems, Columbia Threadneedle Investment is doing nothing. By continuing to back Marks & Spencer, they are sending a clear message: animal suffering is an acceptable price for returns.

They had a choice.
They still do.

But the longer they stay silent, the clearer it becomes — Columbia Threadneedle Investment isn’t just standing by. They’re standing in the way of progress and humanity.

These are the decision-makers
allowing this cruelty to continue
Stuart Barry Machin
Chief Executive Officer
Alex Freudmann
Managing Director of Food
Archie Norman
Chairman
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Marks & Spencer: HONOR
THE FIVE FREEDOMS
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Marks & Spencer has the power and responsibility to stop permitting these extreme cruelties in its supply chain. The public expects better, and animals deserve to live free from this egregious and unnecessary suffering.

It’s time for Marks & Spencer to do what many other leading food companies have already done and put policies in place that ensure the Five Freedoms for animals in its supply chain.

Seafood
This is a vibrant, healthy salmon, leaping joyfully from fresh river water

This magnificent fish symbolizes the wild freedom that salmon once enjoyed. In their natural habitat, they thrive in clean, clear waters, exhibiting their strength and agility. Sadly, many salmon in farming operations are deprived of this freedom, confined to overcrowded and polluted environments.

Let's ensure
the FIVE FREEDOMS
FOR ANIMALS
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