Calling fowl: How to pick the most humane turkey for Thanksgiving

“This is a product for people who care about humane treatment of animals,” says Sam Edwards of S. Wallace Edwards and Sons’ Certified Humane® pasture-raised pork that they use for their bacon and Surryano ham.

This year, ensure your Thanksgiving turkey is Certified Humane^®. Humane Farm Animal Care (HFAC), the leading non-profit certification organization improving the lives of farm animals in food production, wants to encourage shoppers to only buy genuinely Certified Humane^® turkeys.

“One day as I was pushing my shopping cart around, still wrestling with the idea of animals suffering so I could have a meal, I saw the organic meat section and decided to look it over. It was there that I saw my first package of Certified Humane® ground beef…  I now realize that being “further up the food chain” demands that I have a responsibility to respect what I have charge over. I may not raise the animal, but I am just as culpable in the abuse if I support those who do the abusing.”

Sobeys and Jamie Oliver launch delicious new line: each meat dish, prepared fresh and ready to cook at home, is made with Certified Humane® poultry, beef or pork.