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Today, the LA Board of Animal Services Commissioners, at the recommendation of the Department, voted unanimously to endorse the work of the Humane Farm Animal Care organization in their on-going consumer certification program for food products. They also voted to forward the measure to the LA City Council and the Mayor’s Office to make the City’s support for this initiative official.
The Certified Humane Raised & Handled Label is a consumer certification and labeling program that indicates to food purchasers that an egg, dairy, meat, or poultry product has been produced with the welfare of the farm animal in mind.
The industrialization and consolidation of animal agriculture in the United States and around the world has created farms of massive scale, unnatural animal husbandry practices and severe impacts including food safety problems, environmental degradation, loss of family farms and animal mistreatment. The quality of the meat, poultry, egg and dairy products depends, at least in part, on the quality of care farm animals receive. The Certified Humane Raised & Handled program lets consumers choose products from businesses that are providing humane conditions for the animals in their care.
Support for an initiative such as Certified Humane Raised and Handled is a natural fit for the City of Los Angeles and LA Animal Services which seeks to increase humane behavior across the spectrum of human activity, not just in the saving of dogs, cats, and rabbits.
For more information on this important initiative, visit: http://www.certifiedhumane.org/
Humane Farm Animal Care Coming to California
Posted: March 1, 2008 by Certified Humane
Click here to view the original article
Today, the LA Board of Animal Services Commissioners, at the recommendation of the Department, voted unanimously to endorse the work of the Humane Farm Animal Care organization in their on-going consumer certification program for food products. They also voted to forward the measure to the LA City Council and the Mayor’s Office to make the City’s support for this initiative official.
The Certified Humane Raised & Handled Label is a consumer certification and labeling program that indicates to food purchasers that an egg, dairy, meat, or poultry product has been produced with the welfare of the farm animal in mind.
The industrialization and consolidation of animal agriculture in the United States and around the world has created farms of massive scale, unnatural animal husbandry practices and severe impacts including food safety problems, environmental degradation, loss of family farms and animal mistreatment. The quality of the meat, poultry, egg and dairy products depends, at least in part, on the quality of care farm animals receive. The Certified Humane Raised & Handled program lets consumers choose products from businesses that are providing humane conditions for the animals in their care.
Support for an initiative such as Certified Humane Raised and Handled is a natural fit for the City of Los Angeles and LA Animal Services which seeks to increase humane behavior across the spectrum of human activity, not just in the saving of dogs, cats, and rabbits.
For more information on this important initiative, visit: http://www.certifiedhumane.org/
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