Here’s why. Humane Farm Animal Care’s Animal Care Standards ensure that farm animals in our program don’t live in cages or gestation crates, but on farms where they have space to flap their wings and exhibit natural behaviors. Our Animal Care Standards also prevent the use of antibiotics, growth hormones and animal by-products in farm …

Working on farm animal issues is perhaps the most difficult of all animal welfare work. That’s because there are animal liberation activists who often attack groups like ours daily. Every morning, I open hate emails that call me a “murderer” and tell me that the only way to be humane is to become a vegan. …

Did you hear the news? This week, one of the nation’s largest poultry companies was forced to remove their “humanely-raised” label from their chicken products. Under their current program, they used current industry practices to base their claim. As you know, that could never happen under Humane Farm Animal Care’s (HFAC) Certified Humane® program. Since …

One of the current standard practices of poultry breeding companies that supply egg-laying hens to the egg farming industry is the way breeders of laying hens eliminate male chicks. This is a global issue. Some of the methods used for disposal of male chicks are: High Speed Maceration, Carbon Dioxide (gas) they are the most …

Many years ago I learned that the best defense is a good offense… When I started the program, there were producers who would say they would not be on our program because our standards weren’t high enough… I would ask, “What standards specifically are you referring to?”  They would not respond.  The reason they would …