Whole Foods Rating System: Know Your Meat

My husband called me up the other day, all excited, standing in Whole Foods, telling me about their new meat rating system. Whole Foods began rolling out this rating system in February of 2011, and Whole Foods president and CEO, A.C. Gallo, feels that Global Animal Partnerships 5- Step Animal Welfare Rating system is one of the single most impactful programs we have implemented to date at Whole Foods Market. [1]This rating system, developed by Global Animal Partnership; a nonprofit charitable organization founded in 2008, [which] brings together farmers, scientists, ranchers, retailers, and animal advocateswith the common goal of wanting to improve the welfare of animals in agriculture. [2]; in conjunction with Whole Foods, uses independent, third party certifiers for over 1,200 farms and ranches across the U.S., which supply 291 Whole Foods locations. These suppliers and their products can be identified throughout the store by color coded signs and stickers.The rating system has five+ points:1.No Crates, No Cages: Animals live their lives with space to move around and stretch their legs.2. Enriched Environment: Animals are provided with enrichments that encourage behavior thats natural to them like a bale of straw for chickens to peck at, a bowling ball for pigs to shove around, or a sturdy object for cattle to rub against.3. Enhanced Outdoor Access: Pigs and chickens might live in buildings but they all yes, each and every one of them have access to outdoor areas.4. Pasture Centered: When living outdoors, chickens get to forage, pigs get to wallow and cattle get to roam.5. Animal Centered; All Physical Alterations Prohibited: Animals get to live their whole lives with all the body parts they were born with.5+. Animal Centered; Entire Life On Same Farm: Animals raised to Step 5+ standards must be born and live their entire lives on one farm. [3]This step process builds on itself, and Whole Foods points out that even step one is a huge accomplishment and sets higher standards than ever bef! ore. A s tep 5+ is as good as it gets and my hope is that one day step 5+ will be the only step and it will be required of all meat we eat, everywhere.- Jocelyn Broyles[1] Whole Foods press release, When Shopping for Meat, the More You Know, The Better[2] GlobalAnimalPartnership.org[3] Whole Foods Meat: The 5-step Animal Welfare RatingHeadline image Whole FoodsRelated:
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