Scorecards

Raley’s

Store brands include poultry products that have been privately labeled by grocery chains. Typically, these businesses buy products wholesale and then market those finished or packaged products with their own labels. The inherent problem with private labels is that they lack transparency. Store brands may get their meat from highly rated producers, but they are… Read more »

Rosie Organic Chicken (Petaluma Poultry/Perdue)

Rosie Organic Chicken is owned by the brand Petaluma Poultry. Petaluma Poultry is a subsidiary of Perdue Farms, Inc. Perdue has been accused of falsity in advertising when they have advertised some of their products as “humane” or “humanely raised” with their products. As a massive, vertically-integrated business, Perdue’s organic chicken brands have been able… Read more »

Simple Truth (Kroger)

Store brands include poultry products that have been privately labeled by grocery chains. Typically, these businesses buy products wholesale and then market those finished or packaged products with their own labels. The inherent problem with private labels is that they lack transparency. Store brands may get their meat from highly rated producers, but they are… Read more »

Thrive Market

Store brands include poultry products that have been privately labeled by grocery chains. Typically, these businesses buy products wholesale and then market those finished or packaged products with their own labels. The inherent problem with private labels is that they lack transparency. Store brands may get their meat from highly rated producers, but they are… Read more »

Draper Valley Farms (Perdue)

Draper Valley Farms is a subsidiary brand of Perdue Farms, Inc. Perdue has been accused of falsity in advertising when they have advertised some of their products as “humane” or “humanely raised” with their products. As a massive, vertically-integrated business, Perdue’s organic chicken brands have been able to undercut family-scale poultry producers in the industry…. Read more »

Empire Kosher (Empire Kosher)

Empire Kosher used to be a subsidiary brand of Hain Celestial, before the company sold their meat division, Hain Pure Protein, to Aterian Investment Partners in 2019. FreeBird was also sold under the Hain Pure Protein division. Hain Pure Protein is a corporate brand associated with factory-organic production. The cheap price point for these products… Read more »

Smart Chicken/Tecumseh Poultry (Tyson)

Tecumseh Farms is both certified Organic and certified Humane by Humane Farm Animal Care. Tyson Foods, the U.S.’s largest meatpacker, announced June 4, 2018 that it has bought Tecumseh Farms, the company that owns the Smart Chicken brand. Cornucopia’s investigations show that Tecumseh Poultry and by extension the Smart Chicken brand, comes from industrial-scale operations…. Read more »

O Organics (Safeway/Lucerne Foods)

Store brands include poultry products that have been privately labeled by grocery chains. Typically, these businesses buy products wholesale and then market those finished or packaged products with their own labels. The inherent problem with private labels is that they lack transparency. Store brands may get their meat from highly rated producers, but they are… Read more »

Roxy The Organic Chicken (Draper Valley Farms/Perdue)

This brand is a subsidiary of Perdue Farms, Inc. Perdue has been accused of falsity in advertising when they have advertised some of their products as “humane” or “humanely raised” with their products. As a massive, vertically-integrated business, Perdue’s organic chicken brands have been able to undercut family-scale poultry producers in the industry. These chickens… Read more »

FreeBird (Aterian Partners)

FreeBird used to be a subsidiary brand of Hain Celestial’s protein business. Hain Celestial sold their Hain Pure Protein division to Aterian Investment Partners in 2019. The Empire Kosher brand was also included in the sale of Hain Pure Protein. They are a corporate brand associated with factory-organic production. The cheap price point for these… Read more »