History
Both the organization and the Certified Humane Raised & Handled program were founded in 2003 by Adele Douglass. In the late 1990s Douglass had traveled to England to study "Freedom Food," a single brand of farm products which claimed to derive from "humanely raised" animals.
Read more about this topic: Humane Farm Animal Care
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