I was going to ask what you thought about http://www.certifiedhumane.com/ but it is completely fucking useless: “The Animal Care Standards for Chickens Used in Broiler Production do not require that chickens have access to range.” So nevermind.
So instead I’ll ask why a meaningful set of standards doesn’t exist. http://www.globalanimalpartnership.org/ Step 5, maybe? Their web site sucks, because it doesn’t give me a searchable list of products, but maybe they just need some help.
Anyway, this seems like it would be a way more effective thing for EAA to do than just about anything else—I bet lots more people would be willing to pay more for meat, than would be convinceable to eat less meat directly.
Anyway, this seems like it would be a way more effective thing for EAA to do than just about anything else—I bet lots more people would be willing to pay more for meat, than would be convinceable to eat less meat directly.
That sounds like it could be a good idea. One immediate problem I see with this is that most consumers wouldn’t be able to distinguish EAA’s label from the dozens of nearly-meaningless labels such as “Free Range”, “Cage-Free”, etc.
I was going to ask what you thought about http://www.certifiedhumane.com/ but it is completely fucking useless: “The Animal Care Standards for Chickens Used in Broiler Production do not require that chickens have access to range.” So nevermind.
So instead I’ll ask why a meaningful set of standards doesn’t exist. http://www.globalanimalpartnership.org/ Step 5, maybe? Their web site sucks, because it doesn’t give me a searchable list of products, but maybe they just need some help.
Anyway, this seems like it would be a way more effective thing for EAA to do than just about anything else—I bet lots more people would be willing to pay more for meat, than would be convinceable to eat less meat directly.
That sounds like it could be a good idea. One immediate problem I see with this is that most consumers wouldn’t be able to distinguish EAA’s label from the dozens of nearly-meaningless labels such as “Free Range”, “Cage-Free”, etc.
It would take a serious marketing campaign. But Givewell seems to be increasingly popular—they would probably promote a well-designed program.