The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals submitted a petition with USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service to begin the rulemaking process to eliminate its label-approval program for any labels relating to claims about the conditions in which animals were raised.
The FSIS, which does not regulate the on-farm treatment of animals raised for meat, bases its approval of claims such as “humanely raised” or “raised in a stress-free environment” on the companies’ own submissions, with no audit or supporting…
