While this egg brand produces eggs that are Certified Humane, they raise their hens without legitimate outdoor access. Instead, they used screened-in porches to qualify their “outdoor access.”
Scorecards
Hidden Villa Ranch
This is an industrialized organic brand that focuses on profit margin rather than dedication to organic ideals and animal welfare.”
Fairfield Specialty Eggs
This producer supplies organic eggs to wholesale buyers, who then are likely to repackage their product under their own brand name. Evidence indicates this brand uses factory-style production methods.
Gemperle Family Farms
Brands with this rating are generally produced on industrial-scale operations that grant no meaningful outdoor access. “Outdoor access” for this brand means either a covered porch or small strip of dirt that is not even accessible to every individual chicken. Often, doors leading out of the buildings are intentionally small to discourage birds from going… Read more »
Vega Farms
Brands with this rating are generally produced on industrial-scale operations that grant no meaningful outdoor access. “Outdoor access” on these operations may mean a covered porch that is not even accessible to every individual chicken. Often, doors leading out of the buildings are intentionally small to discourage birds from going outside. No producers in this… Read more »
Eggology
Brands with this rating are generally produced on industrial-scale operations that grant no meaningful outdoor access. “Outdoor access” on these operations may mean a covered porch that is not even accessible to every individual chicken. Often, doors leading out of the buildings are intentionally small to discourage birds from going outside. No producers in this… Read more »
Pearl Valley Specialty Eggs
Brands with this rating are generally produced on industrial-scale operations that grant no meaningful outdoor access. “Outdoor access” on these operations may mean a covered porch that is not even accessible to every individual chicken. Often, doors leading out of the buildings are intentionally small to discourage birds from going outside. No producers in this… Read more »
Wellsley Farms (BJ’s Wholesale)
Private‐label, or store‐brand eggs come from grocers or distributors who have the obvious desire of wanting to grow their presence in the organic marketplace. These brands typically get their eggs wholesale and re-label them under their own brand name without direct interaction with farmers. Unfortunately, there is an inherent limitation in private‐label organic products: organic… Read more »
Apricot Lane Farms
Though this brand has not yet participated in Cornucopia’s survey, our investigation show that this is likely an authentic pasture-based farm with legitimate outdoor access. We encourage customers of this brand to ask that they participate fully to provide further transparency. Apricot Lane Farms is also being investigated right now as they may not hold… Read more »
