Free Range Certification
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An attempt to buy ethical farm produce is not only expensive but utterly confusing. This is a problem due to the wildly numerous options of food labeling that seeks to promote animal welfare as against traditional cold-hearted profit-oriented agriculture. A problem that the CDG free-range certification program is designed to solve.
What about Free-Range?
Free-range is a term that is used to refer to produce from animals that were reared in open spaces and not in batteries and cages. This ensures that these farm animals have adequate access to sunlight and can freely forage for food. Pigs and poultry are naturally meant to forage in grassland and open-air environments.
The importance of this is that animals have adequate access to sunlight, open-air and other natural elements instrumental to their growth and wellbeing until they are processed for food. Thus, it is imperative that for farms to be able to pass the requirements for free-range agricultural practices and obtain our certification, they would have provided the most natural conditions and met our stated regulations.
This is to induce farmers to afford their livestock the maximum level of care and simultaneously making profit.
Why Us?
CDG is an independent certification body, a rapidly-growing international certification body of highly experienced professionals offering the latest in systems certification and promoting quality concepts. The goal of the CDG free-range certificate is to improve the lives of farm animals by modifying and inducing demand for more humane and more responsible farm animal practices. The CDG certificate gives utmost confidence to consumers that the farm produce are from agricultural practices that have met the most objective ethical standards for farm animal treatment.
- Allowing all farm animals to roam freely in open-air fields and enclosures.
- Farm animals should not be kept in cages, or overcrowded stalls.
- The density requirement for poultry, especially, farm animals shall not exceed 1500 per hectare or 7 birds per square meter.
- All livestock shall not be kept in higher populations that would not allow them access to grazing land or sunlight.
- Farmers are absolutely prohibited from feed-lotting and harmful production practices.
- Practices that inflict pain in any way shall not be allowed.
- The farm environment should be specifically made in such ways that animal life would thrive on it and it should not be inimical to their health in any way.
- All animals will be promptly and adequately taken care of in the event of injury or sickness.
- The feeding of animals would not only meet their production requirements but also their health and welfare requirements.
- The production of farm animals shall be specifically made to be environmentally, socially and economically sustainable.
- No farm animal be isolated except in cases of quarantine to prevent spread of diseases. All farm animals shall be able to carry out their natural behaviors.