Meyer Natural Foods, Loveland, Colo., launched a Humanely Handled program, designed to further strengthen Meyer’s strict standards for raising and producing cattle and establish a program that farmers and ranchers can use to produce the highest-quality beef in the most humane manner.

The program focuses on all aspects of the production and development process from traceability, cattle housing, transportation and third-party validation to environmental protection, disbudding and castration. The program is also a USDA FSIS-Approved third-party- certified process.