How can Niman Ranch farmers and ranchers be 100 percent positive of the lineage of their animals?
Unlike industrial meat operations, where meat from many sources is homogenized, eliminating the ability to track the origin of the product, at Niman Ranch we know where our livestock has been from farm to plate. All Niman Ranch animals are born, raised and processed in the United States. Interestingly, the Agriculture Department has recently suggested a mandatory nationwide system of animal identification, making farmers, feedlots and packinghouses track every head of livestock from birth through slaughter by 2009. The factory-farm meat producers immediately raised strenuous objections.
