that raise them healthy? and don't torture them?
2007-01-19 04:41:10 · 11 answers · asked by Falloutgirl 4 in Food & Drink ➔ Vegetarian & Vegan
I'm an organic farmer.I've always treated them like a pet. My chicken layers of eggs are traveling around the barnyard and can be seen doing many things. When I had dairy cows they always were outside.grazing and sitting under the trees for shade or the three sided shed for a wind break.We only feed the animals what I grow on the farm. No chemicals or antibiotics and hormone growths. Even my organic fruits and vegetables are grown without any thing just what nature does. Check out your local small farmer they may has what you are looking for.I have a stand and can't keep up with the demand. Your state department of agriculture might have a list of farms that you might check out.
2007-01-19 06:38:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
You would have to get animals raised on a small family farm and slaughtered at a small butcher shop. I live near a country in that raises their own grass feed cattle (surrounding the in, eating grass all day looking pretty as a picture). Large food companies are too concerned with profits to think about compassion. Wholefoods (large health food chain store) has the only meat that has standards for humane treatment that I know of.
2007-01-19 14:12:10 · answer #2 · answered by Joyce T 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It really depends on your standards.
Free range is a matter of contention with animal rights activists. I'm not sure about definitions world wide but in the UK the definition means that it only needs to be possible for the animal to get outside. They could still be stuck in a large shed for their entire lives because a number of animals got stuck in the doorway or something.
Halal butchers are required by their beliefs to treat animals kindly during their lives but the slaughter is a different matter - many (I don't know what percentage or similar) don't stun the animals before they are killed - meaning they are fully conscious when their throats are slit.
A teacher at my school who doesn't agree with my animal rights stance but is concerned with animal welfare says that he tries to purchase meat from a local producer because he often walks past where the animals are kept and can see them roaming about and that they are healthy. In my (humble) opinion if it's hidden away it's for a reason - although there's no harm in asking to see for yourself (just prepared to get more rejections than acceptances).
A general guide that some people I know use is to judge by the price - if it's really cheap or only uses really small quantities (like the amount of chicken in a chicken soup, for example), that cheap price probably came about by cutting some corners.
Organic isn't strictly about animal welfare but it does mean that the animals will not have weird chemical pesticides or similar hidden in their feed if that's something that concerns you.
However, as a vegan I am the kind of person who does think that it is equally cruel to kill the animal for the sake of a meal.
2007-01-19 13:06:23 · answer #3 · answered by Skydreamer 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
There are many informative answers here. Free range, organically grown, of course, is best, or hunting wild animals who have had a natural life--- But I am in agreement with the statement that killing them for people's taste buds IS torture in its own right.
It is clearly more healthful for people not to eat meat--- all kinds of scientific studies have proven that. So it really comes down to killing creatures because of our taste for flesh. Since you are a compassionate person, concerned for the animals, why not investigate becoming a vegetarian?
You will find there are all kinds of benefits--- to the animals, to your health, and to the environment--- by making this choice.
Good luck!
2007-01-19 14:04:06 · answer #4 · answered by Rani 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Free range and organic are definitely two that I guess you could say don't torture the animals. I also heard that Kosher is "good" as well because they kill them in such a way that they don't feel pain.
2007-01-19 14:57:15 · answer #5 · answered by Deb 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Isn't it torture enough to be raised only to be slaughtered for the pleasure of humans? Death is still death. On slaughter day, they still hear and see their farmmates being killed right before them. Isn't that torture enough, knowing that you are next?
2007-01-19 14:53:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Define healthy, some people would believe that killing the animal at all for food is torture in and of itself.
The farms that raise these animals aren't anywhere near as inhumane as PeTA would like you to think they are.
2007-01-19 12:43:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
whole foods market. they don't torture animals but treat the people that work their like $hit.
2007-01-19 12:45:17 · answer #8 · answered by Alice223 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Do they put bamboo shoots under their fingernails and beat them with hoses?I don't think torture is the right phrasing.Abuse and neglect they recieve and all companies kill the animals,so I would say that there aren't any.
2007-01-19 13:46:51 · answer #9 · answered by james i 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋
go for locally raised organic food.
there are probably organic farmers that have free range
animals (allowed to roam free etc.)
we have them here. they are not given hormones or antibiotics.
try to go for organic meat.
find the local farmers if you can (they come to our farmers market here at the local junior college).
yes there are people who raise meat i feel ok about buying.
2007-01-19 12:45:23 · answer #10 · answered by Sufi 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋