I only eat 'humane' meat and animal products.

I only eat humane animal products

Free-range. Grass-fed. Organic. What's the problem?

Sadly, the various 'humane' labels attributed to many animal products are little more than a marketing ploy to keep people paying for an inhumane product. As more and more people become mindful of the effects their
food choices have and with so much information now available online, animal agriculture industries must find creative ways to alleviate the fears of shoppers.
But whatever's written on the labels of the food we buy, it's important to understand that many of the most horrible abuses these animals endure are industry standard practices whether the animal is 'humanely raised' or not. The animals 'humanely' raised for meat, eggs and dairy also still suffer a violent, bloody and premature death when their throats are slit at a fraction of their natural lifespan. There is also the glaring problem when claiming we kill these animals humanely that in every single case, the animal does not want to die.

Some standard practices farm animals endure no matter how they are raised include:

- The male 'layer' breed of chicks thrown alive into grinding machines aged one day old, or dumped en masse
  into giant plastic bags or containers where they are crushed, suffocate or starve to death.

- Male dairy calves removed from their mothers at birth and killed for veal because they don't produce milk

- Piglets having their testicles ripped out without pain relief

- Female dairy cows repeatedly and forcibly impregnated in order to produce milk for their young (we
take the milk instead and the young are either killed or raised to suffer the same fate as their mothers)
The mothers are killed when their milk production starts to slow at a fraction of their natural lifespan.

- Chickens restricted upside-down in 'evisceration shackles' or a 'killing cone', their throats cut so they bleed to
death, sometimes they are stunned first via electrocution, often they are not.

- Cattle and pigs incapacitated by a captive bolt to the skull, hung upside-down, their throats cut so they
bleed to death.

- Sheep and pigs stunned via electrocution, hung upside-down, their throats cut so they bleed to death.

- Fish suffering violent and painful decompression when hauled up in nets, with survivors being crushed to
  death  from the weight of other fish, bleeding to death, or slowly suffocating.

- Cattle, sheep and pigs forced into gas chambers to be horrifically incapacitated, hung upside-down and bled
   to death via a knife to the throat.

With the above practices in mind it's also worth checking out HumaneFacts.org, a great resource for exploring
the realities behind deceptive food labelling. Articles by Free From Harm here and here are also worth a look.

Below are some videos showing how all animals (humane, grass-fed, free-range, organic or factory farmed) are slaughtered. It's likely you won't want watch the videos or that if you do that they'll make for uncomfortable viewing. If that is the case, then please ask yourself how what's happening to these animals could ever be considered humane.