Performance Food Group

Performance Food Group is a major foodservice distributor whose core business involves sourcing and selling animal products at industrial scale. The company’s operations are built around the procurement and distribution of meat, poultry, seafood, and dairy products to restaurants and institutions across North America. This model inherently depends on and drives the commercial systems of animal agriculture.

While the company publishes a Global Animal Welfare Policy and references evidence-based approaches to animal care in its corporate reports, these commitments exist within a business model predicated on high-volume animal exploitation. The company’s stated systems for farmed shrimp and other animal supply chains focus on accountability for welfare “requisites,” but the fundamental commercial relationship remains one of commodification. The scale of distribution—moving animal products from concentrated feeding operations and aquaculture systems to a vast network of foodservice clients—makes the company a central conduit in the industrial animal agriculture supply chain.