More resources are available on the Products & Places page, but here’s a summary of what to look for (and where) when buying your humanely raised meats.
There may be others, but here’s a short list of local grocers that carry humanely raised products.
- Whole Foods: All stores have a Global Welfare Partnership program that rates how sustainably and humanely animals were raised
- Trader Joe’s: Almost all TJ meats and poultry are humanely raised. Look for labels that say pastured or free-range
- Safeway’s Open Nature brand
- Nob Hill’s Full Circle Brand: Humanely-raised chickens and meat and dairy cows, no pork
- Sprouts: Some organic, and some humanely-raised choices for produce, dairy and meats
- Lunardi’s Market: San Jose and Los Gatos locations
- Mollie Stone’s: Palo Alto location
When shopping, look for these key words on your meats:
- Beef: Look for “pastured”, “pastured-raised”, “non-confined”, “no added hormones” and “no antibiotics” labels.
- Pork: Look for “pastured”, “pasture-raised”, “free-range”, “non-confined” or “raised in deep-bedded housing” labels.Under federal regulations hormones are not allowed in raising pigs.
- Chicken: Look for “pastured”, “pastured-raised”, “non-confined” and “no hormones” labels. Beware of the “cage-free” and “range-free” labels because they don’t tell the whole story about whether chickens were treated humanely. Under federal regulations hormones are not allowed in raising chickens.
- Eggs: Look for “pastured” or “pasture-raised” labels. Beware of the “cage-free” and “range-free” labels because they don’t tell the whole story about whether chickens were treated humanely.
- Dairy: Look for “pastured”, “pasture-raised”, “no hormones” and “no antibiotics” labels.