Meyer Natural Foods has strict standards when it comes to raising and producing the beef used for its Meyer Natural Angus, Laura’s Lean Beef, Dakota Beef, Premium Natural Beef and Local Harvest brands. Each of the company’s beef brands uses only cattle humanely-raised on small to mid-sized family farms, without the use of hormones and antibiotics.To further strengthen those requirements, Meyer has created its own standardization program for the humane handling of cattle. The company developed the Meyer Natural Foods Humanely Handled Program to utilize common-sense standards that benefit the cattle and producers, and produce the highest quality natural beef.
The Program includes the highest levels of transparency, independence and integrity. The Program focuses on several additional aspects of the production process including traceability, cattle housing, environmental protection, disbudding, castration and transportation. And while Meyer Natural Foods developed the program, it is a USDA FSIS Approved Third Party Certified Process, and requires third party validation. All producers must comply with all standards in order to be certified via the Program.
The Program began in 2013 and is available to other producers. Producers interested in the program can Contact Us for more information.
Meyer Natural Foods Humanely Handled – Full Standards
Meyer Natural Foods Humanely Handled – Press Release
