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What does Free
Farmed mean?
Here's What We Mean
There was a time when family farms fed America. No more. Over
the last 25 years, farms have become agri-business, often employing
factory farm techniques designed to produce the highest yield for the
highest profit. Sometimes in this intense environment, farm animals
become food production units and, consequently, suffer inhumane
treatment.
Putting the Free in
Free Farmed
But it doesn't have to be that way. For little or no cost,
food producers and processors can follow animal welfare standards of
practice that ensure that farm animals lives are:
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FREE from unnecessary
fear and distress, by ensuring conditions and care
that limit stress;
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FREE from
unnecessary pain, injury, and disease,
by prevention of disease through rapid diagnosis and treatment;
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FREE from hunger
and thirst, by ready access to fresh water and a diet
that maintains full health and vigor; and
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FREE from
unnecessary discomfort,
by providing an appropriate environment including shelter and a
comfortable resting area, by enabling the expression of normal
behaviors, and by providing sufficient space, proper facilities, and
company of the animal's own kind.
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