Are the cattle treated any differently on an organic farm?
High standards of animal welfare are essential to organic farming. In all cases, animals provided with comfortable, clean shelter and plenty of space, will be less stressed, more content and able to behave instinctively. Organic animals are not fed and managed in ways that attempt to push them into production levels beyond their natural capacity. Organic farmers believe that the stress imposed on animals by unnatural and intensive regimes such as feeding high levels of inappropriate protein to stimulate rapid growth or milk production, intensive housing or the routine use of antibiotics and other drugs can all cause health problems.
