Original Story aired on NPR on The Salt: What’s on Your Plate?, Food for Thought, November 18, 2015 You’re at the grocery store, shopping for Thanksgiving dinner. You’ve grabbed sweet potatoes, Brussels sprouts and cans of pumpkin. If you’re from the Midwest like I am, you’re also gearing up for green bean casserole. But when you approach a refrigerated …

Where food labels are concerned, it’s generally a case of do your homework before you shop. And when shopping for chicken, labels like “natural” and “farm raised” don’t really help to inform you about where or how the chicken was raised. “Organic,” on the other hand, tells you that the hen was given USDA certified …

Since an egg company was featured in an episode of Jamie and Jimmy’s Friday Night Feast in January 2015, people have been asking lots of questions about the ethics of egg production. There are big differences between hens grown for egg production and those grown for meat. While they are all part of the same …

Quebec-based pork producer, duBreton®, the #1 producer of Organic and Certified Humane Raised and Handled® pork, recently announced that it will raise 300,000 more crate-free pigs by 2018 Sept 29 – Humane Farm Animal Care® (HFAC), the leading international nonprofit certification program improving the lives of millions of farm animals in food production, announced this …

An additional 300,000 animals to be raised in certified humane conditions after $30M investment Quebec-based pork producer DuBreton is set to dramatically increase the number of pigs to be certified as organic and humanely raised. And that has the potential of opening up a new, growing market for hundreds of family farms. “As a family …

An additional 300,000 animals to be raised in certified humane conditions after $30M investment   Quebec-based pork producer DuBreton is set to dramatically increase the number of pigs to be certified as organic and humanely raised. And that has the potential of opening up a new, growing market for hundreds of family farms. “As a …

Canadian pork producer reaffirms commitment to raise 300,000 crate-free pigs by 2018 QUEBEC CITY, Oct. 9, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Retailers in the United States and Canada can’t keep up with consumer demand for organic pork, a trend that helped drive duBreton’s recent commitment to raise an additional 300,000 crate-free pigs by 2018. At this week’s …

WARSAW, Ind., Aug. 26, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Egg Innovations, an industry leader for more than 25 years in specialty eggs, has elevated the gold standard for the egg industry with a new brand, Blue Sky Family Farms, which is available in major supermarkets across the Midwest starting Aug. 15. Blue Sky Family Farms hold to …

Millions of laying hens have died this year, but chickens raised outdoors have been affected far less than those on factory farms.   The Mississippi flyway is a major thoroughfare for more than 300 species of migratory birds that pass over the Midwest traveling from breeding grounds in Canada to warm winter climates south of …