Certified Humane Raised and Handled
All products with this label are to be produced with the comfort of farm animals coming first. The nonprofit and independent organization, Humane Farm Animal Care, operates all inspections. Normal animal behavior is encouraged with open spaces and understanding human hands. Proper protection from the elements and clean water must always be available. There are no tethers, no antibiotics, no hormones, no restrictive farrowing crates for sows, no cages, and no abuse, for a reduced stress environment. No abuse such as forced molting in birds through starvation. A minimum of 4 hours of exercise per day must be afforded to dairy cattle.
Pork and beef processors are visited by third-party inspectors who are animal welfare experts to verify compliance of Certified Humane farmers/producers. Environmental standards must be complied with in addition to a higher benchmark for slaughtering farm animals. A benchmark higher than the required levels set by the Federal Humane Slaughter Act.
Nevertheless, the following is allowed: Outdoor access and visible daylight are not required for all species. Chickens may not be in cages, but they are inside barns or a warehouse that some will consider over-crowed. These chickens are not "free-range." Birds can be "debeaked" and pigs can have tail-docking done to them.
Please review our Food Labels Decoded posting on September 23, 2013, titled American Humane Certified. Images of debeaking, farrowing crates, and tail-docking, can be seen by Clicking Here.
Bill Lauto, GTG
Pork and beef processors are visited by third-party inspectors who are animal welfare experts to verify compliance of Certified Humane farmers/producers. Environmental standards must be complied with in addition to a higher benchmark for slaughtering farm animals. A benchmark higher than the required levels set by the Federal Humane Slaughter Act.
Nevertheless, the following is allowed: Outdoor access and visible daylight are not required for all species. Chickens may not be in cages, but they are inside barns or a warehouse that some will consider over-crowed. These chickens are not "free-range." Birds can be "debeaked" and pigs can have tail-docking done to them.
Please review our Food Labels Decoded posting on September 23, 2013, titled American Humane Certified. Images of debeaking, farrowing crates, and tail-docking, can be seen by Clicking Here.
Bill Lauto, GTG
