How to know if animal was killed humanely at grocery store when i want to buy meat?

Question

well i have decided to become a vegetarian but my husband dousent.... so i was wondering if there is a way i can know when i am at a grocery market... if the animal was killed humanely....

i dont want to ignore teh fact that my husband could be buying and supporting somehting as unhumanely ... btw with kosher... what is the kosher law?

Answer 1

There really is no way to "humanely" slaughter an animal. You can buy meat, dairy, and eggs where the animal were treated a little less cruelly, but there will always be a level of brutality in meat production.

Why don't you try some of the amazing analogues and see if your husband will eat those? There are veggie burgers, veggie ribs, veggie sausage, etc. Or a compromise: He eats veggie at home and meat only in a restaurant (as in, he can't bring meat into the house).

Answer 2

You don't know, even with Kosher meat you just can't know. Unless of course your willing to raise the beasts yourself and bring them to a slaughter house yourself, and pay for it to be done and supervice the slaughter.

other than that you can be pretty confident that due to the mass of animals being slaughtered and the stress the work force is under to get through a certain amount of people in a certain amount of time, that corners are cut, maybe not intentionaly, but they are and always at the expence of the animals...

You have two choices, accept that the animal has suffered and enjoy your meat... or don't

Answer 3

I grew up in the Appalachian mountains. The nearest town was 45 minutes away. I was surrounded by trees, and in those trees were all sorts of wild animals...panthers, bears, timber rattlers, diamondback rattlers, copper heads, water moccasins (we also called them cottonmouths), black snakes, black racers, squirrels, dear, possums, rabbits, coyotes, wolves, turkeys, raccoons, you get the picture. You can't get more rural than that, and a lot of people in my family went hunting all the time. Apparently, there is something wrong with me, because I believe killing animals for sport is wrong. Now, I'm not vegetarian at all, I love hamburgers, steak, beef jerky, bacon, fish, I can't stand hotdogs, because they're just a step above spam. My father told me he saw a buck in his field one day, so he called his brother and asked if he shot it would his brother want it? He said yes, so he shot it. Killed it. I think that was wrong. He didn't want the deer to eat, he just wanted to kill it to kill it. At least his brother ate it. I also saw a show where two men were "hunting deer" and they found several bucks that were bedded down. Now, there was an old guy that wanted to shoot one, so he shot at one of the bucks, a large, unmoving target, and missed. But the bucks didn't even move a muscle. So he shot again, and this time he hit it. I thought that was very wrong, because I don't believe that could actually be called hunting. I'm a little more okay if people kill animals to eat them, but I still don't like it. I made it my personal philosophy not to hurt or kill an animal, unless that animal is going to harm me or somebody with me, or if I need to kill the animal to eat because I'm in a survival situation. So, I have killed mice that have come into my home. I felt bad for it, but the humane traps didn't work. Mice spread disease, so that can hurt me or my family. I have accidentally killed rabbits that jumped out in front of my car. Now, if I lived on a farm, and I saw an animal that could hurt my livestock, I would kill it. Not because I wanted too, but that animal would be threatening my livelihood. Sorry about the long answer, I just feel strongly about this subject and wanted to speak my mind.

Answer 4

YOU DESCRIBE the methods to KILL humanely???

then where are you USA UK Aus ????
Because we have different rules...
PS
are your upset that the UK has had to destroy so many animals because of the illness?? Because the illness has been here for decades ?? centuries??
ans no medical intervention>>????

ALL animals that are governed by the USA must conform to a standard of "Humane treatment" Including veterinarian care,, vaccinations,, and health history.The USDA dept of Agriculture has strict guide lines.
Any one that can invent a better method to dispatch hundreds of animals,, in hundreds of slaughter houses,, is welcome
BUT the wheels of industry MUST continue.
rest assured too many bleeding hearts are looking for some nonsense of an excuse to start another investigation..
AND it will be done.
???????
do consider having the jugular veins being cut as a humane method to kill a beast and be called Holy or Kosher or halal
It takes minuets and the beast is very much aware????
I really believe a bullet at the base of the skull.. the beast can not see it... and the separation of the spinal cord is WELL instant.. But YOU tell us..

Answer 5

There is no way to tell. It's also is not about the killing..it's about supporting an industry that have these animals experience a living hell before they are killed. I'm vegetarian but my husband is not. He buys his own meat if he wants it.

Answer 6

If it's at a regular grocery store, it wasn't killed humanely (if you can even kill something humanely) or raised humanely. You'll have to buy direct from a local farm or buy organic (but even organic is no guarantee). Fish are supposedly killed more humanely than other animals; try that.

No animal you get is going to be "put to sleep" in a humane fashion. It was shot or it's throat slit or something like that.

Answer 7

You can go to Whole Foods or Wild Oats or buy Kosher meat.

Answer 8

Go to PETA web site and look at their video collection. I recommend Meet Your Meat. That explains the process at slaughterhouses, and explain how humane animal killing is.

Answer 9

There is no way to know..... there are all different parts of all different animals sold....they dont know which animal is which.....most likely it was killed in-humanley unless you get it from a farmer....

Answer 10

Some will tell you that is impossible. If it was killed, it wasn't humane. That being said.

Organically raised animals tend to live better lives before they are killed.

Kosher animals (Jewish dietary law) has rules on the animal being killed quickly.