I just read your comments and you’re exactly right re the “humane” meat labels. I provided the response below to another person who brought this up. It’s a difficult thing we struggle with as we know consumption of any meat product (thus I’m vegetarian/mostly vegan) is inherently cruel and requires the suffering of an animal. The worry is that if we don’t include these statements about trying to eat less cruelly we alienate a certain proportion of the public who are not yet ready to go veg. I struggle with this myself and wish I didn’t have to include statements like this at the end of my videos so I was glad to read your comments ;> Ok, onto my response:

“That’s a good point and no, we don’t know with any level of certainty that certified free-range farms are not killing piglets in this manner.

If someone were still interested in purchasing pork they need to do their due diligence and request the criteria required for the label they are buying.

Most humane labels don’t involve many basic things we all assume they do (the one that thankfully does however is the BCSPCA label. Kudos to them!). For most others though, transportation, livestock auctions, collecting stations and slaughter are all NOT covered under most humane certification programs. Many producers simply have one barn with the higher standards but the rest of their barns in the industrial standard. They use this one barn to mislead the public into believing all products from that farm/producer are humane, when in fact they are not.

Be very wary when purchasing humanely-labeled products. They are – hopefully – produced in a less cruel manner but the key words here are “less cruel”, not more humane.”