How can you source humanely-raised meat for your kitchen?

It's good that people care where their food is coming from, but the only ethical meat from animals is roadkill. "Humanely-raised" is a fantasy term designed to assuage the valid concerns of consumers.

There is no such "label", no animal wishes to be born in a system of exploitation. There is nothing humane to being forcefully impregnated and raised to be killed. If we wish to be more "humane", go for plant-based meats or lobby/ get lab-meat.

It is now widely known and demonstrated that all these labels are meaningless. Most certifications are self-certifications, and there simply is no “humane” way to kill an animal. Furthermore, there is not a single “humane” slaughterhouse willing to open its doors to independent auditors to take videos and assess the reality of these methods, which by the way are exactly the same. Most animals raised “humanely” end up in the exact same slaughterhouses, where they die in terror and pain.

To source humanely-raised meat for your kitchen, look for labels like "Certified Humane" or "Pasture-Raised" when shopping. Connect with local farmers through markets or CSAs to understand their ethical practices. Choose suppliers committed to humane sourcing for transparency in meat origins. This approach ensures your kitchen supports ethical and sustainable meat production.

The concept of "humanely-raised meat" is subjective and can be considered a misnomer as raising animals for eventual slaughter isn't considering animals' sentience and autonomy. Animals, like humans, are sentient beings with the capacity to feel pleasure, pain, and a range of emotions. Animals have their own preferences and instincts, and breeding them for consumption interferes with their natural autonomy and conflicts with their natural behaviours. Animals don't want to be bred, controlled & die for human consumption. We should be considering numerous plant-based alternatives, their impressive health benefits, recognise evolving ethical perspectives, and huge environmental impact of animal agriculture. 💚🌱🌏

There is few restaurants in the world who have their own farm to raise the animals for themselves daily needs. This is so satisfying for the guest when they got to know and see what they are enjoying. Rather than this there is few trusted suppliers who are supplying fresh and high quality products around us. And we can go for locally sourced products as well which is high in quality and standard which promotes sustainability.

The best option is to buy local. And personally visit the farms you will be purchasing from. This also creates a good relationship between yourself and your suppliers

many times we are in search of good, tasty and quality meat both for our customers and for our family, by buying meat from small farms where the animals grow much better we manage to have better quality, taste and at the same time we know that the animals do not have suffering or vaccinating differently is harmful to the human product! There are some units where the animals are "happy" with the result that the product you buy is perfect and your customers compliment the quality, the taste and the origin.

Ιn every area there is a local market that you can ask about where you can find such meat, you can also search on the internet for small farms that are located in different places and raising animals is ideal.

Read the small print. In my experience, companies who market themselves as selling “whole” foods will still hide important information such as humane certification. I often ask staff at all markets about how (meat) was raised, feed, geography etc. and get all kinds of answers that don’t correspond to the marketing. This is illegal in some places as it should be. Sustainability is a top priority; I think legislation only will uphold the standard required we want. Our planet needs it.

There is no such thing as humanely raised meat. “Meat” is the flesh of sentient, feeling animals who have been bred and born into captivity, and violently killed at a fraction of their natural lifespan. “There’s no right way to do the wrong thing.”

So many other foods are available which are healthy, widely available and filling. Remember the horsemeat scandal? Not even 'experts' were able to tell that beef had been mixed with horsemeat. The safest way is to turn your back on the meat industry and eating any meat.

In short, you can't. The younger generations are turning their backs on cruelty and want to live in a more sustainable and environmentally-friendly world. Their own lives and the lives of future generations depends on a different way of life. Meat production takes up vast amounts of land, water and the production of waste. Yes, of course plants do too, but to a much lesser extent. Meat farmers should turn their backs on raising livestock for supermarkets completely and turn towards plants for a higher yield and profit. They need to position themselves for the future and educate themselves on where food profit in the future will be.

Use it. Write it on your menu; educate your clientele. Personally I take this responsibility seriously. Care about the provenance of all ingredients, or nothing!

By promoting small and sustainable farms beyond the excellent elements of the food, you can create unique recipes and flavors that every customer will remember. By telling the world the way the livestock unit works, you give the customer the knowledge and experience that you already have, so that he can understand it and follow you on the culinary journey that began when he came to eat your food.

The hypocrisy of claiming that animals can be raised “humanely” to be killed by slaughter is blatant. Regulations are designed to create false perceptions among consumers, and are neither monitored nor enforced. “Cage-free”, “raised outdoors”, “raised humanely” are just badly told lies. The truth is that the meat and dairy industries refuse to give access to their factory farms (where more than 98% of animals are raised), and in fact they endorse and lobby for gagging orders (ag-gag laws) prohibiting recording and sharing videos and information showing the reality of their breeding, raising and killing systems. Which demonstrates that the industry wants to keep all it does secret, including the reality behind its grotesque “humane” claims.