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Here is an Edmonton Journal article:

http://edmontonjournal.com/life/food...ed-humane-beef

Restaurants have been jostling to boast about the best ingredients — local, natural, organic — for the last 20 years.

Now Earls has upped the ante with its latest ingredient sourcing accomplishment. The restaurant chain, started in Edmonton in 1982 by Bus Fuller and his son, Stanley, has just become the first chain in North America to serve only Certified Humane beef.

Not only is the Earls’ beef (in all its variations, from ground to sirloin) now raised without the use of antibiotics, steroids or added hormones, it is also being humanely slaughtered, according to the specifications of Dr. Temple Grandin herself.

Grandin is the bestselling author and animal welfare celebrity who has been instrumental in changing how livestock is raised, handled and slaughtered in North America. (She was even the subject of a 2010 biopic starring Claire Danes.) Grandin sits on the scientific committee of Humane Farm Animal Care (HFAC), the non-profit organization that certifies beef as meeting humane standards.

And a website to poke around.


http://www.grandin.com/