[KateUTWS]

I try to buy meat that comes from sources where husbandry and slaughtering standards are high.

What criteria do you use to choose a source? Are there farms that specialise in "nice" animal husbandry? Do you have some links to "nice" sources?

[slhill]

Nice? No, that's not the criterion. But I find that the meat from Lidgate butchers in Holland Park (London, where I live) is pretty good, and independent reports and newspapers articles back that up. It's not much to go on, but it's all I've got. I try to avoid battery-farmed meat (which tends to be injected with water to bulk it up, has the texture of cotton wool and the taste of nothing much) and stick to small-scale, high-quality producers. I don't eat much meat as it's expensive to shop the way I do -- but the meat I do eat is a lot tastier than the average.

[steve-b]

Are there farms that specialise in "nice" animal husbandry?

His educational career began, interestingly enough, in agricultural school, where he majored in animal husbandry, until they... caught him at it one day....
  --Tom Lehrer