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Organic & Animal Welfare Certification Organizations
This page contains some links to certification organizations that provide standards that restrict the way that certain animals-used-for-food can be treated. If you check out these standards, you will see that the standards are either really vague or really weak which allows for animals to be confined in very crowded and miserable conditions and then transported and slaughtered in ways that cause a lot of distress and fear.
Below are links to four organic certification organizations that have their standards available on their websites plus a link to the BC-SPCA, which has created an SPCA-Certified standard, which is partly described in a table on the BC-SPCA website (click on the "link to standards" to go directly to the information about the standards):
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· Certified Organic Association of BC (COABC)
(link to standards, see pages 48, 53, 55, and 59 for some animal-related standards)
· Standards Council of Canada
(link to standards, see page 19 for some animal-related standards)
· Quality Assurance International (QAI) (link showing that QAI uses USDA standards)
(link to USDA standards, see section 205.239 for some animal-related standards)
· Organic Crop Improvement Association (OCIA)
(link to standards, you will need to be able to read MS-Word documents for this,
click on the OCIA International Certification Standards to view the standards,
see pages 18, 19, 21, 23 and 24 for some animal-related standards)
· BC-SPCA
On this
webpage, the BC-SPCA states that it's standards "embrace" the 5-freedoms (like "freedom from discomfort"), but the standards they have allow for very crowded conditions and allow for extreme suffering in transportation and slaughter (the standards do require shorter transport times but the standards do not prevent the huge amount of suffering involved with the extreme crowding and extreme heat and cold during transport or the huge amount of distress involved in slaughter with rough handling and improper stunning)
(You can check out a table that summarizes the BC-SPCA standards
here)
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Here are links to three more organic certification organizations plus a link to the Winnipeg Humane Society which has it's own set of standards. Note that many of these organizations do not provide the information about their standards on their website.
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