Shelburne Farms, a 1,400-acre working farm here, has received the Humane Farm Animal Care’s Certified Humane certification for its Farmhouse Cheddar cheese in mid-February.

Interview with Adele Douglass, Executive Director, Humane Farm Animal Care, and Jesse LaFlamme from Pete and Gerry’s Organic Eggs

Dear Lynne:     There isn’t much money in my food budget, but when I spend it I’d like to know I am supporting healthy farming, especially quality treatment of farm animals. My question: When I buy meat, is there a reliable way of knowing if the animal was treated well? — Suspicious of Hype

A newly formed group of family dairy farms in Wisconsin, calling themselves Grass Point Farms, has become the first national dairy to be certified to use the “Certified Humane Raised and Handled” label on its fluid milk, butter and cheese products.

D’Agostino Supermarkets, here is asking all its livestock, poultry, dairy and egg suppliers to earn certification under an animal welfare program.