Comments on: Eating Humane Food

By: Alicia

Alicia — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:51:11 +0000

Hello,

I am a proud supporter of the World Society for the Protection of Animals. They recently discovered that the process of transporting animals around Canada is extremely inhumane. Animals are being injured terribly, stressed out, and frozen in severe weather conditions. When they reach their destinations, injured or dead animals (sometimes up to 50% of the load) end up being dumped in a landfill. They are asking people to help spread the word and get our politicians to pose strict policies in the humane transport of these farm animals. I came across this blog because I am currently searching for ways I can buy local. I do not support transporting animals long distances under harsh conditions.

You can visit this site for more information:
http://www.wspa.ca/latestnews/2010/wspa_report_reveals_problems_at_cfia.aspx

Thank you and good luck finding more ethically produced foods.

Alicia

By: Food Novice

Food Novice — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:17:47 +0000

To continue on to what Anna, I lived on and around farms growing up and it’s amazing how much better home grown cattle and pigs tasted compared to their commercial counterparts. The difference is they’re healthy, cared for, and killed humanely (well… at least, as humanely as you can kill something I guess) and it’s this kind of care that is missing in most supermarket shelves.
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By: Morten Dahl

Morten Dahl — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:18:11 +0000

Yes, we certainly need the humane food. If the food we buy from the supermarket is not organically fed, raised in a safe, healthy, and natural environment, how can we keep our healthy?

By: Don Murphy

Don Murphy — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:15:39 +0000

Hi,

I was wondering if you knew of some way that I could find out whether certain companies use humane food. For example, are the chickens that Campbell’s Soup uses, humanely processed? Is there any source of info for those types of foods? It’s easy to purchase humanely processed beef but not always easy to know if Oscar Meyer lunchmeat is humanely treated. Any help you can give would be appreciated.

Cheers,

Don

By: Organic Eating Daily

Organic Eating Daily — Sun, 04 May 2008 16:18:13 +0000

Will — thanks for the information in this post. I stopped eating meat a while back, and have felt much healthier every since, but recently, after my blood type was analyzed by a holistic doctor, I was told to slowly factor in some meat to my diet. I have been reluctant to do so, but this post gives me some extra information that just might make all the difference. Maybe a little talk with my local butcher is the next step.
Keep up the great work –

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By: sky

sky — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:31:08 +0000

Namaste’ Will yes it is…I never buy any wood that isn’t. They have it in the states as well. The leading one is the CSA in canada. I know in the states there is smartwood.org and and treefarmsystem.org is the ones I can think of off hand.
Metta.

sky
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By: Will

Will — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:19:14 +0000

You make great points, Jen. Linda Prout has also talked about the importance of grass fed animals. I need to find out more about it. I have asked about grass fed beef a few times locally, but even the packages labeled organic don’t say anything about it. I found one local beef producer who claims his animals are grass fed, but he gives them grain for the last few days or weeks, I can’t remember which. He said this is routinely done to grass fed cattle to “finish them off” and make the meat marbled. I don’t know for sure, but in my mind this makes the beef not grass fed.

By: Just Jen

Just Jen — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:44:40 +0000

I ask about the food because if the animal is raised properly then the meat will be healthier to eat. Too many animals are not organic and safe or are safe but not organic or are grain fed instead of grass fed, etc…it’s difficult to find unaltered, healthy choices now a days.

By: Will

Will — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 21:37:15 +0000

Hi Sky! Is the wood certification for sustainable harvesting? The organization in Canada I linked to is The Canadian Coalition for Farm Animals (CCFA). Glad the SPCA in Canada is trying to get certification labels. I just hope that there becomes a standard of sorts and not a whole bunch of different organizations doing different types of certification.

With organic food, there are a few main certifications. But there are also others that sometimes are sponsored by the very same people they are certifying.

I read your latest post about the child and the wolf. It is very interesting with lots of good information, but the basic story is still so hard to believe. If even partly true, it is certainly amazing!