ethical farming
Conscientious food production
Ethical farming is agricultural practice that prioritizes animal welfare, environmental sustainability, and fair treatment of workers.
The term encompasses various approaches—free-range, organic, regenerative—united by concern for more than profit: They only buy meat from ethical farming operations.
What counts as ethical varies by speaker; the phrase often appears in marketing where standards may be loose.
- pasture-raisedReared on grassland
- permacultureSustainable ecosystem design method
- animal rightsMoral claims for fauna
- living wageIncome covering necessities
- humane slaughterDeath with least distress
humane treatment · agroforestry · farmworker rights · carbon sequestration · veterinary care · cruelty-free · fair trade · water conservation · grass-fed · cage-free · biofertilizers · crop rotation · humane · sustainable · ecosystem · holistic · regenerative · harvest
- Jewish Agriculturesabbatical year, mixed seeds, field labor, fallow fields, kibbutz
- Jewish livestockkosher animals, shechita, kosher slaughter, ritual slaughter, shochet
- animal welfareanimal rights, humane societies, humane treatment, shelters, SPCA
- Islamic agrariansharecropping, zakat, halal
ethical farmingindustrial agriculture
Large-scale mechanized farming
slash-and-burn agriculture · agribusiness · corporate farming