Scorecards
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 »
Tyson Foods is the U.S.’s largest meatpacker. Cornucopia’s investigations show that organic brands controlled by Tyson come from industrial-scale operations. The birds may receive outdoor access, but it appears to be of poor quality. This means that few, if any birds utilize outdoor areas and individual birds may not ever see the outdoors. These “organic”… Read more »
This brand is supplied and/or 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…. Read more »
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 »
Perdue Farms, Inc. 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 are raised in static barns with flocks… Read more »
This farm is certified by the Real Organic Project:
They say about their farm: “Eight Mile Creek Farm believes that through diversification of both plant and animal species, we have created, and continue to improve on, a sustainable system that works to produce healthy food for our community, and that leaves our environment in a better state of health. Poultry is an integral part… Read more »
This farm is certified by the Real Organic Project:
Wrong Direction Farm is a small farm in the Mohawk Valley of Upstate New York. The Perozzi family has been raising pastured chickens since 2011. We believe that chickens thrive best when they are raised in an outdoor environment with bugs to chase, fresh air to breathe, and grass to roam in. Our chickens are… Read more »
NOTE: Cameron Molberg, Cornucopia’s Board chair is the CEO of this brand. This relationship did not affect our process in reviewing and investigating this brand. Greener Pasture’s says about their chicken: “Living an outdoor lifestyle, our chickens have full access to sunshine and fresh air, bugs and critters they find in the pasture, and native… Read more »
