Prosper Meats is Global Animal Partnership Step 4 Rated

Global Animal Partnership Animal Welfare Rating Standards for Beef Cattle Step 4 Beef 

Do you know where your beef comes from?

Global Animal Partnership’s 5-Step Animal Welfare Rating Program was developed with the animal’s welfare as the primary focus. But what does farm animal welfare mean?

We define animal welfare as 3 overlapping components that together with good management and genetics, contribute to good farm animal welfare:

• Health & Productivity – raising animals so that they’re healthy and productive with good quality feed and water, shelter, and free from disease, illness and injury (but treating any animals that get sick).
• Natural Living – raising animals in environments that allow them to express their natural behaviors effectively – both indoors and outdoors
• Emotional Well Being – raising animals in environments that provide them the ability to be inquisitive, happy and playful and minimize boredom, frustration, fear, stress and pain, as much as possible.

By defining animal welfare, this helps us to identify and improve farming and ranching systems and practices. We then translate these systems into standards for each species under our GAP 5-Step^® Animal Welfare Rating program.