Meat with a "certified organic" stamp or sticker must meet certain requirements issued by department of agriculture in your country. According to the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movement (IFOAM), organic farms should:
- Sustain and enhance the health of soil, plants, animals, humans and the planet;
- Be based on living ecological systems and cycles, working with and helping sustain them;
- Build on relationships that ensure fairness with regard to the common environment and life opportunities; and
- Be managed in such a way so as to protect the health and well being of the environment.
An organic barn
You won't find a row of narrow stalls on an organic farm. Rather, barns are usually clean and open, and more often than not, use more environmentally efficient resources than their factory farm counterparts. They're often smaller, too, so they use less water and power and produce less waste. Furthermore, organic farmers use only the manure from their organic livestock to fertilize their fields, so the food the animals consume has no added chemicals or pesticides.
How animals are treated
You can let your livestock to graze and roam freely, rather than keeping them locked up in a barn.a common practice in organic farming to allow animals to get exercise and fresh air, and live a more natural existence.
What do organic livestock eat
Organically raised livestock eat food that's free of antibiotics, growth hormones, drugs, chemicals and pesticides. They also do not eat any animal by-products.
