Which meat company does not mistreat their animals?!

Good on you for caring, which is more than most people do. Many people will try and deny the cruelty in those videos, some will go as far as saying it's all been staged by animal activists lol!

I don't know the names of the less cruel companies because I don't eat meat myself. But if you watch a film called "Food Inc" there is one producer featured in that who is killing the animals himself on the farm. Any animals that get sent to a slaughterhouse are going to suffer much more than those killed on the farm, as the transport and factory slaughter processes are going to inflict at least some stress on some individuals some of the time. It then becomes a question of how much suffering you are ok with, since nobody can guarantee that no animal suffers while being raised or during the slaughter (anybody who does is a liar). So you support some cruelty by being selective about which meats you buy, or support no cruelty by avoiding meats altogether.

Anyway check out the film Food Inc and see if you can buy that guy's products. Alternatively you could try and find a similar producer in your region. Also you could check out blogs from Michael Pollan and Sandor Katz who both advocate for ethical meat production (as a vegan I find these guys intolerable hypocrites but they may help you find some useful information).

By cutting down your meat intake you reduce your environmental impact, and less is always best when it comes to animal products. You will probably need to eat mainly vegetarian meals when you eat out because most restaurants won't use the more ethical meats that you are looking for (buzzwords like "free range" and "range fed" offer no guarantee that the animals suffer any less as most are still killed in slaughterhouses). But if it is too inconvenient for you to find meat which you believe fits your ethical standard, please consider going vego rather than just giving in and eating the factory farmed meats.

Good Luck.

vegan biologist

I don't know of any particular brands but if you're wanting meat that comes from animals that were treated well, look for packaging that says "free range" and "grass fed." This basically means that if your beef comes from a free-range cow, that cow got to live in a nice open field and eat fresh grass instead of being stuck in a barn all the time and being fed corn and other foods that are intended to fatten them up.

Those videos are the worst of the worst. They are Not the norm. There are videos of police abusing prisoners, does that mean all prisoners are abused? Of course not.

But Animals are killed for food in slaughter houses and in the wild. Both are not pretty. Animals kill other animals for food. Its nature, not cruel.

You can try organic meat if you want. I understand that they treat the animals humanely while they are alive. But there is no way you can kill an animal humanely. Atleast you can feel better about how they are treated before being killed. There are free roaming chickens and organically raised animals etc. Good luck!

None of them do. I found this website "Where Meat Comes From" as I was looking at the Webs directory: http://wheremeatcomesfrom.webs.com . My website is http://livestockeducationsociety.webs.co…

As to the answerer who said to give them a lethal injection--that is EXTREMELY illogical. That injection would then move throughout the bloodstream, which happens to go through organs and muscles (aka offal and meat, respectively). To have that chemical in the food products we consume is extremely detrimental to our health--we can even die from it!

There are no meat companies which only sell the parts of animals who died of old age.
They are slaughtered,
usually by being shot in the head.

You can very well "give up" meat. Your nutritional requirements are the same as everyone else's.

"Animals kill other animals for food. Its nature, not cruel"

I don't know how anyone could consider stuffing chickens into cages so tightly that they can't move natural. And I'd be really worried about someone who says that they didn't consider it cruel.

I totally get it. Why not just put the animals to sleep with a shot instead of killing them? By shot I mean injection, like lethal injection or something like that. Ridiculous world.

There are none. ANYONE can give up meat if they want to.

*facepalm*

Think about it: does it make any logical sense for a company to abuse its inventory like that?

As Deer Hunter said, those videos are not representative of the norm, they are just sensationalist extreme examples that do not occur regularly.