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USDA’s guidance on meat labeling: still voluntary, alas.

Food Politics

Animal Welfare Claims Breed Claims Diet Claims Living or Raising Conditions Claims Negative Antibiotic Use Claims Negative Hormone Use Claims Source and Traceability Claims Organic Claims Environment-Related Claims It says: Animal-raising claims, such as “Raised Without Antibiotics,” “Grass-Fed” and Free-Range,” and environment-related claims, such (..)

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What’s in a Name? Food Labels, Explained

Modern Farmer

Do you know what “cage-free” means? How about “free range”? Pasture-raised”? Photography by Lena Beck) Free Range: This means that the animal spends part of its time outside, uncaged. Farms must provide proof to the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service of free-range conditions.

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Eating to save the planet: How hard could it be?  

Sustainable Food Trust

The challenge, for most meat-eaters out there, would be the significant reduction in the amount of pork, chicken and eggs available (due to the move away from permanently housed flocks and herds that are fed grain and imported protein feeds, to free-range, high-welfare systems). Complex food labelling also adds to the confusion.

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“HOLY CHICKEN”

The Lunatic Farmer

He consulted food experts, restaurant gurus throughout the process and the bottom line is that he opened his restaurant in Cleveland, Ohio using the interior walls to proclaim that the whole thing was fake, a charade. He hired a factory farmer in Alabama who had one house out of 15 empty to raise his 3,000 chickens for him.

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Measuring and Valuing: Animal welfare

Sustainable Food Trust

This is reflected in the increase of interest in meat with more ethical credentials, including pasture-fed, local and organic. A significant shift towards meat-free diets has also been, in part, driven by concern for the welfare of animals in the food industry. So how can all of this information be conveyed to the consumer?

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Soil for Water Video Case Studies

ATTRA

A core belief for Michael and Bean Hollow Grassfed Farm is having and encouraging a healthy ecosystem where farm and land management reinforce natural processes because a farm cannot be healthy if the land is sick. Brent and Anna and their family raise pork and chicken on pasture.

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