Australians, is there anywhere I can buy meat where the animals aren't undergoing cruelty?

Question

Please help me australians, is there anywhere I can find a product list or company list of meat I can buy that is being produced humanely? Obviously the animals are still being killed so that I can eat them, but are there companies that are enabling the animals to be free of suffering up until the slaughtering point? I live in Perth. PLEASE HELP!!!

Answer 1

some animals are not treated cruelly until the moment they are taken for slaughter. this moment however, erases any 'humane' treatment before it. the animals know, they fear, all their natural desires are stripped away from them and they go through the incredibly frightening process before they are murdered. every animal fears death. this fear is inside the meat.

please consider carefully the pros and cons of eating dead animals. for your health, for the environment and last but not least, for the beautiful animals.

Answer 2

You can buy it in any meat market.

Answer 3

Plant meat (vegan) is your only shot. (tofu, seiten, tempeh, tvp, etc) Meat cannot be produced humanely due to the over production of them animals and the entire process of prepping and slaughtering them. Even on farms it is near impossible to kill an animal with at some amount of cruelty.

Answer 4

There ARE no sources like that! Only sources that claim to be that way. Such a source is not profitable. And anyway, I consider murder to be cruel in and of itself.

Answer 5

I'm not sure about the availability in Australia, but you could look for Kosher meats.  One of the restrictions of Kosher meat is that the animal is treated humanely and butchered in a way so it doesn't suffer.

Answer 6

Sorry, but thats like asking are there any murderers that buy you chocolates first.

There is no definition of Cruelty that excludes death, how can there be ?

Giving a cow decent grass to eat in no way compensates for what you sponsor in the slaughterhouse. Sorry, but you need to either live with that or stop eating the stuff. No amount of good treatment absolves the guilt of killing.

"Thierryhenry" is talking rubbish. Obviously it seems people have different definitions of the word "cruelty"

Answer 7

Your question is a contradiction in terms.  You don't mind them being SLAUGHTERED!   But you want them "happy" leading up to you eating them!  Sorry!  Makes NO sense.  

Obviously. . .I'm NOT a meat eater!  I believe animals love life as much as humans do!  Watch mothers with their young!  They're protective and caring!  Nurturing and "loving".  Watch the "little" ones play!  Think about that!

Answer 8

Free Range Organic, ask your local butcher, he'll know.

Answer 9

Considering the fact that Australia is so large there aren't really any farms which cage there animals. There is one family who own a cattle farm the same size as France, where the cattle can freely wander as they wish until slaughter time. Diary farms, also have immense amounts of land and the animals are daily rounded up for milking then let go to once again freely wander, NO 9 ft by 9 t cages here. Chicken farms are nearly all free range, once again to do with the size of Australia, we have no space restrictions. Anyway, basically all Australian meat is relatively cruelty free.

Answer 10

try organic or free range but those dont taste as good

(this has been proven)

or just eat tofu

Answer 11

Free range chickens are easy to source from you local supermarket.

A lot of cattle & sheep are "free range" to a point, unless they are grain fed which usually lasts a few weeks before slaughter.

Cattle & sheep are all mass transported via rail or trucks & require mustering etc, which I'm guessing would fall under your definition as cruelty. Only suggestion I can think of is that you somehow "buy" a steer/lamb etc direct from the farm & pay a farm butcher to slaughter the beast on site. I'm not sure as to whether their are legal requirements etc for this though.

Free range pork is readily available, just run a search with site:au to get Aussie only.

Hope this helps.

Answer 12

NO, unless you have seen thru your own eyes, or raised by your own family members, monitored closely, and without being petitioned or protest by any animal beings.

You would support buying them today to promote cruelty demand tomorrow. You would indistinguishably care their welfare in the future.

Answer 13

don't eat meat you jackal.

Answer 14

Local butchers. They're getting killed anyway. This is Australia, there are policies and regulations that stop cruelty. It would be very rare to see otherwise. We are pretty humane with the process, well at the least, better off from most countries.

Answer 15

No, how can the death penalty not be cruel?

Most beef is bred in feedlots, not open range farms. Small little pens where the animal cant fun, cramped conditions, etc, sometimes indoors so no sun, no wind.

I've never heard of a free range pig farm in Australia.

I can tell you that free range chickens still have thier beaks removed (no anaesthetic either) to prevent them from attacking other chickens.  It is a natual psychologcial habit of a chicken to become aggressive in large numbers.

Also, there is the impact that "meat" producing has on the environment. The large amounts of water used to clean sheds, the impact that effluent has on our natural waterways etc.