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If animal welfare is important to you when buying meat, you can find humanely raised meat in these places:
What is humanely raised meat? Wouldn’t it be great if “humanely raised” had one clear meaning? But there are many different ways to raise farm animals, so there are many definitions of “humanely raised” out there.
3 creative ways to buy humanely raised meat…. (if you can’t find it at your farmers’ market or grocery store) 1. Order meat by mail: It’s always best to buy meat that was raised near you — you can talk with the farmer, visit the farm — but if this isn’t possible, try ordering frozen cuts online.
If you’re looking for humanely raised meat from a small farm (rather than a big food company), head to your local farmers’ market. There, you can talk with farmers about how they raise their animals and even ask to visit their farm. (See the sidebar at right for tips on visiting a market.)
Butcher shops are all about meat, but not every butcher shop specializes in grass-fed, pasture raised, or free-range meats. Here’s a national map of humane butcher shops. Click on your state to find a shop that sources the majority of its meat from humane farms.
A farmer raising ethical meat and eggs. Now, 5 years later, I tend to hundreds of precious beings on our 39-acre farm in western Wisconsin with joy, gratitude and reverence. We raise pastured ducks, pigs, chickens, turkeys, and geese.
If you can’t find meat with one of these labels at your store, consider finding a farmers’ market near you. Or you can buy meat by mail . Or you could stock up on humanely raised meat when you visit a city near you – cities are more likely to have a humane butcher shop .
Whole Foods (store locator here) sells a lot of humanely raised meat, thanks to its Global Animal Partnership (GAP) program, which labels meat from Step 1 - 5. None of the fresh meat sold at Whole Foods has antibiotics or synthetic hormones in it, no pigs were raised in gestation crates, no physical alterations were done to the poultry, the ...
It’s a word associated with intentional brutality on a massive scale, and while people who oppose meat production would call it just that, it’s hard to apply the word to the act of an ethical farmer or responsible meat plant worker quickly ending the lives of well-cared for animals.
But every time you choose humanely raised meat — meat raised by ethical farmers who value animal welfare — you’re giving a farmer and the people who work for them the opportunity to tumble in the grass with their lambs or watch a sunset with their chickens, which makes all the hard work worthwhile.