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1 A Consumer's Guide to Food Labels and Animal Welfare [i] (2014)

handle is hein.animal/cgfol0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AMERICAN GRASSFED CERTIFIED AI WpIfa a ANIMAL WELFARE APPROVED (dairy, beef, bison, lamb, goat) (dairy eggs, chicken, goose, duck, turkey, A third-party certification program 1 beef, bison, lamb, goat, pork, rabbit) administered by the American Grassfed The only USDA-approved third-party Association. The program's standards f9 certification label thatsupports and require continuous access to pasture and a diet of 100 promotes family farmers who raise their percent forage (no feedlots). Unlike the USDA's voluntary animals with the highest welfare standards, outdoors, on standard for grass fed claims, confinement and the use of pasture or range. The program is offered free of charge to hormones and antibiotics is prohibited. Pain relief is not participating farmers. Beak cutting of poultry and tail docking required for physical alterations like dockingof tails and of pigs and cattle are prohibited, while pain relief is required removal of horns. No standards exist for the treatment of for removal of horn buds of cattle. Standards include the breedinganimals, animals duringtransport, or animals at treatment of breeding animals, animals duringtransport, and slaughter. animals at slaughter. AMERICAN HUMANE CERTIFIED CERTIFIED CERTIFIED HUMANE (dairy, eggs, chicken, turkey, beef, HUMANE (dairy, eggs, chicken, turkey, beef, veal, bison, lamb, goat, pork) veal, lamb, goat, pork) A third-party welfare certification program Athird-party welfare certification program administered by the American Humane administered by the non-profit Humane Farm Animal Care. Association. Access to the outdoors is not required for meat Access to the outdoors is not required for meat birds, egg- birds, egg-laying hens, beef cattle, and pigs. Provides the laying hens, and pigs; however, minimum space allowances lowest space allowances of the main humane certification and indoor environmental enrichment must be provided. programs, and is the only welfare program to permit the Feedlots are permitted for beef cattle. Beak trimmingof hens use of cages for housing egg-laying hens. Beak trimming and turkeys and tail docking of pigs are allowed under certain of poultry and tail docking of pigs without pain relief are circumstances. Standards include the treatment of breeding allowed. Standards include the treatment of breeding animals, animals during transport, and animals at slaughter. animals, animals during transport, and animals at slaughter. AWl I www awionline org

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